The office of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan launched a new performance dashboard Wednesday, providing residents both a central hub to access information about the city’s many services and a series of data visualizations showing well the city is delivering on its promises.
The new website, called Performance Seattle, uses charts, maps and descriptions of its goals to provide a window into the city’s performance across seven domains, such as homelessness response, capital projects, and “future of work.” The dashboards page for “Safe and Healthy Communities,” for example, starts by providing links to citywide initiatives, such as Alert Seattle, a service that allows users to sign up for emergency notifications that are delivered by text message, email, voice message or social media. The page then runs down a series of metrics, showing, for instance, that the city’s emergency medical service personnel are able to reach the scene within four minutes (Seattle’s current target time for response) 75 percent of the time.