"I would tell someone on the fence about mySidewalk to definitely give them a try. It will open their eyes and give them a better picture of what’s going on in their community."

"The Iowa Profile is essential for making data-driven decisions and taking a holistic approach to community development. The tool is available for public use and provides essential information for designing strategic solutions to foster opportunities for Iowans, communities and businesses to thrive.”

“Having the ability to create dashboards and share vital data and information on our city and business community allows us to message our work in ways we haven’t before. This helps us in all aspects, whether it be demonstrating our quality of life or helping to attract talent to business retention and expansion opportunities. mySidewalk helps us simplify the way we share information in a single, easy-to-use solution.”

“It just clicked with me very quickly that if we have the ability to take our data and plug it into [the mySidewalk] map, and display the results on a county by county or, in our case, a census tract by census tract format, I saw great opportunity there.”

"We're in like this data renaissance right now. How do we become more proactive rather than reactive? So like using AI and like looking at the data and seeing what, you know, we do in a workshop with the council, what trends can we look at on the data to see, what should we be paying attention to?"