public data that is actually close enough to touch: city service requests, public safety, building permits, transit, businesses, and current city/county public meetings.
Known caveat: a lot of dataGNV is stale upstream. That is not a mystery to solve again. The City does not promise completeness, accuracy, or timeliness, and its open-data handbook puts freshness on stewards, manual updates, and automation. So this dashboard labels stale feeds and keeps them useful as history; eSCRIBE carries current public meetings, GPD crime responses are current, and traffic crashes lag enough to watch.