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Goal

To provide city leaders, businesses and residents with convenient, centralized access to key statistics on San Jose's economy, enabling informed discussion and decision-making.

How to use the dashboard

  • Each indicator box shows the most recent data point available. The date for this data point is listed in small text below the number.
  • The trend arrow and value show how the indicator changed over the previous year.
  • To reveal additional charts, click 'see more'. To hide the charts, click 'see less'.
  • To see the source for each indicator, move your cursor over the information "i" symbol in the bottom left corner of each box.

The indicators are updated on a quarterly basis. To subscribe to announcements about data releases and new features, email Michelle Thong in the San Jose Office of Economic Development.

Raw data for all the indicators can be downloaded from the City of San Jose's open data portal.

Help us improve the dashboard

Have ideas for how we could make the dashboard better? Take a quick survey to share your feedback with us.

How this dashboard was made

This dashboard was developed by Code for San Jose volunteers in partnership with the San Jose Office of Economic Development. The core team consisted of:

  • Michelle Thong - Project Lead, Code for San Jose | San Jose Office of Economic Development
  • Laurie Reynolds - Lead Developer, Code for San Jose
  • Danny Shapira - Front-End Developer, Code for San Jose
  • Other contributors include Julie Meridian, Chandni Soni, Fenda Truong, Vivek Bansal and Evan Kroske.

This dashboard was inspired by similar sites for Metro Denver, the San Diego region and Chicago.

Civic technology that's open to all

In making this dashboard, we sought to embrace and demonstrate the principles in San Jose's framework for civic innovation, the Smart City Vision.

  • Designing for users
  • Partnering with the community
  • Iterative development: We are continuously improving the site based on feedback from users.
  • Open data: All dashboard indicators and charts are populated directly from San Jose's open data portal.
  • Open source: The code is available on Github and can be freely reused and adapted by others.

Contact Code for San Jose if you'd like to talk about adapting this project to your specific needs.