A little background.

I'm Aaron Feinstein, and I spend a lot of time thinking about how government works, how it could work better, and what we can learn from the enormous amount of public data that's out there. This site brings together projects exploring public budgets, cities, and various policy topics. Some are research, others are interactive tools, but they share a common goal: making complicated public information easier to explore, question, and use..

For the full professional history, you can find me on LinkedIn. Code and various experiments live on GitHub.