Insights from City of Olathe's Neighborhood Park Usage Study

Explore the comprehensive Neighborhood Park Usage Study conducted by Ed Foley & Paul Krueger in City of Olathe. The study delves into how park resources are managed, the challenges faced in tracking neighborhood park usage, the methodology used for data collection, key findings on growing pains and powerful tertiary benefits, and the integration of ClearPoint for data visualization and analysis. Discover the importance of answering crucial questions regarding park visitors and amenity usage through detailed data analysis.

• Neighborhood Park Study
• Data Analysis
• Resource Management
• ClearPoint Integration

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1. City of Olathes Neighborhood Park Usage Study By Ed Foley & Paul Krueger

2. Introductions How did this happen? One unanswered question https://youtu.be/IG5meEV1rUE

3. Bottom Line Up Front We have to fight for resources Doesn t everybody??? Management Decisions If we are going to do it, it should be done right

4. Background Neighborhood Parks are hard to track Not doing has been a missed opportunity

5. How Did we do it? Listed all 27 Neighborhood Parks Created 3 Daily Time segments Created 3 Seasonal Time Segments Considered factors such as amenity usage, unique usage, hourly snapshots, and weather considerations Randomized the schedule and assigned dates to complete 300 observations over 3 years with the goal of conducting about 2 counts per week every week, year round

6. What did we learn? Growing Pains Tertiary Benefits are Powerful

7. So, where does ClearPoint come in? The Power of Automation Data Dive

8. The Data Three data sets visualized in ClearPoint Park Usage Amenities Usage Weather

9. So, did we answer the main question? With all the pretty charts we almost forgot to measure our first question How many people visit our Neighborhood Parks in a: Year Day Hour

10. Can we answer Your Questions??? Thank You

11. Neighborhood Park Visitors

12. Amenity Usage

13. Amenity Usage

14. Weather

15. Weather