CASE DISCUSSIONS

Conference attendees will have access to new written case studies, researched and produced by the Picker Center case team in conjunction with the Case Consortium at Columbia and senior SIPA faculty members. Each case also includes a 10-15 video case that will be screened at conference. Previews are available below.

FROM COMPSTAT TO GOV 2.0: BIG DATA IN NEW YORK CITY

With interviews with NYPD police chief Bill Bratton, Bloomberg “geek squad” chief Michael Flowers, and Deputy Mayor Goldsmith, this case explores the creation of Compstat, and the birth of what would later be called the “Big Data” movement in city government.


Faculty Sponsor: William B. Eimicke, Columbia University & Dennis C. Smith, New York University

Case Writers: Adam Stepan & Kathleen Gilsinan

Researcher: Nora Shannon Johnson

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