New York City has been a Big Data pioneer for decades. In the early 1990s,
the city launched the CompStat data-driven policing system, so that, in the
words of former NYPD department chief Lou Anemone, officers could stop
“just running around answering 911 calls” and start analyzing patterns to
prevent crime. Thanks in part to CompStat, major crimes in the city have
since fallen by 80 percent. During the Michael Bloomberg mayoral years, the
city used data to pinpoint dangerous intersections and driving habits,
cutting traffic deaths by nearly a third. Today, thanks to advances in
data-storage capacity as well as the ubiquity of smartphones and broadband
access, New York has an unprecedented number of facts to analyze and act
upon, CompStat-style, across all areas of government—from building
inspection to noise reduction.

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