TycheAbout:WhatIs

How does my city earn and spend money?

Is the crime rate increasing or decreasing in my neighborhood?

Is there enough housing being built to support all demographics of residents?

These are three of thousands of questions that can be asked and answered using public data from your city, county, or other government agency.

Tyche is an online community that supports unbiased local data storytelling using public data.  Our community’s data stories can be used by anyone - for free - to understand, inform and take action.  

Tyche community members may be data analysts or data scientists, or they are new to understanding data and how to use it.  Community members have an interest in understanding and communicating insight about their city or local area.  

At Tyche we will support community members from the start to the finish in their data storytelling.  We help community members…

… identify a topic to explore, either through inspiration from existing data stories or brainstorming new ideas

… identify and acquire public data through open data or public information requests

… work with public data using data analysis or data science

… author their findings in an accessible story

… craft visualizations that make the story understandable

… publish and make their data stories findable

Any Tyche data story has readers and users.  A Tyche reader is anyone who is using a data story to become more informed and aware.  A Tyche user takes the data and data story as an input to what they do - a journalist writing an article, an academic conducting research, a nonprofit leader determining direction, a government official evaluating programs in other cities.

Free… free to write, free to get help, free to read, free to use.