Creators: Alexis Staveski, Juanse Gutierrez, & Julia Lobodzinski

Creator Statement:

FloridaOpenGov is a website dedicated to making Florida education and local government data publicly accessible and easy to understand. The inspiration for this started as the FSU Devoe L. Moore Institute’s Data Analytics Group was searching for data on the Florida Department of Education website. This data was difficult to sift through and not clean for analyses. Thus, if a parent or teacher wanted information on school crime, achievement rates, government spending, or salaries, this data would not be easy to locate or use. We took this raw data, cleaned it, and created key visualizations to make this information more accessible and intelligible to the individuals who may want to use it.

Some sections of our website include Government Data, School Data, County Data, and Maps. We also have a few blogs published on our site, and these provide a more qualitative look into our data. Some of our key visualizations include District Grades Over Time, Free Lunch Rates vs. Grades, District Grades vs. Salary, District Enrollment Map, Graduation Rate By Special Category Map, and more. Ultimately, this website looks to provide interested parties, such as parents, teachers, researchers, and policymakers, with a tool they can trust to provide a wealth of data to make decisions, form opinions, and conduct research on the state of K-12 education and government spending in Florida.