Tulsa mayor GT Bynum set an ambitious goal for his administration: increase Tulsa's per capita income. Bynum highlighted this goal and other data-driven initiatives in his Feb. 2017 TEDx Pennsylvania Avenue Talk "Partisan Rhetoric is for Losers," in Washington, D.C.

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To select policies necessary to meet this goal, the city needed to understand the factors correlated to per capita income. The City of Tulsa Office of Performance Strategy & Innovation asked Tulsa Data Science, Inc., (TDS) for help.

 

Using publicly available data from the U.S. Census Bureau, TDS applied a variety of data science methods to determine what features most significantly contribute to per capita income, and made formal recommendations to the Bynum administration for achieving the mayor's goals.

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Read our analysis document posted below. And scroll on for our slide deck presentation for the Tulsa's Urban Data Pioneers, given at Tulsa City Hall Aug. 28, 2017.