TycheAbout:Purpose
At Tyche Insights we believe that public data - available to citizens and contextualized with stories, maps and charts - informs citizens, holds our government entities accountable, identifies challenges that our communities face, and provides insight into potential policy solutions.
Our inspiration for Tyche Insights is USAFacts and their mission - “No one at USAFacts is trying to convince you of anything. The only opinion we have is that government data should be easier to access. Our entire mission is to provide you with facts about the United States that are rooted in data. We believe once you have the solid, unbiased numbers behind the issues you can make up your own mind.”
At Tyche Insights we took the work that USAFacts is doing at the national and state level and are piloting an approach that empowers a community to tell data stories related to the nearly 100,000 government entities that exist in the USA and to support data storytelling anywhere in the world.
Tyche Insights will support this community in several ways. We will...
- create a technology stack that automates and simplifies the identification, access (via FOIA/FOIL or otherwise), receipt, management, analysis, initial contextualizing, long-term monitoring, and cross referencing of public data from government entities to support story writing.
- develop and maintain a portfolio of potential stories that, when complete, can be used to fully cross reference and assess cities, counties, and states across our standard story categories.
- recruit, educate, and support a community of citizen authors, analysts, and content creators to use data to tell stories both to complete a core set of data stories for each community, and to tell additional stories of sufficient import and timeliness to their communities.
- enlist partnerships with city, county, and state governments, nonprofits, educational institutions, journalists, and other suitable commercial or institutional entities to begin using stories in their own research and organizational efforts.