Compared to Jackson is a collaborative project between the City of Jackson, Mississippi and the Center for Government Excellence to help city residents, employees and leaders make collaborative resource decisions based on intelligence gathered from a cohort of comparable U.S. cities.
Compared_to_Jackson.xlsx is a compilation of budget information from six U.S. cities. The budget data was hand-collected and tranformed into a standard format for analysis.
The data in this repository was visualized using Tableau and can be viewed here.
Information on how we identified comparable cities can be found in our City Cluster repository.
Read our How We Did It guide to learn about this project from start to finish.
Training presentation about finding, cleaning, and analyzing data.
If you would like more information, please contact me at [email protected].