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Doug R. Thomas edited this page Sep 23, 2017 · 2 revisions

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Definitions

  • Ticket Request: a single 311 ticket
  • Immediate Neighborhood: a 3-block radius around a specific address
  • Neighborhood: a section of the city, as defined by the census or a neighborhood group

Primary Personas

Personas are ranked by priority to project.

  1. Individual Citizen (IC)
  2. Citizen Groups (CG)
  3. Internal 311 Groups (311)
  4. 3rd-Party Researchers (R)
  5. Non-Internal Government Users (GU)

Key Functionality & User Stories By Persona

Individual Citizen

Data About Their Own Tickets

As someone who's submitted a 311 ticket I want to look up information about my ticket request so I can check the status of a problem I reported in my neighborhood.

As someone who's submitted a 311 ticket I want to sign up for email alerts about my ticket request so I can get real-time status updates without checking the website.

Data About Neighborhood

As someone who is pregnant I want to check my immediate neighborhood for Mosquito Control tickets so I can assess my risk for mosquito-borne diseases like Zika.

As a car driver I want to check my immediate neighborhood for Pothole/Roadway Surface Repair tickets so I can make changes to my morning commute to avoid car damage.

Citizen Groups

Data About Neighborhood

As a neighborhood association leader I want to view overall neighborhood tickets so I can assess the overall health of my neighborhood.

As a neighborhood association leader I want to view others' tickets so I can aid them through the 311 remediation process.

Internal 311 Groups

Data Visualizations - Immediate Response

As a member of the 311 working group I want to quickly segment and visualize data so I can answer citizen questions about recent events in a quickly-digestible format.

Data Visualizations - Proactive Response

As a member of the 311 working group I want to segment and visualize large-scale data so I can provide information about long-term city projects to the public.

3rd-Party Researchers

Segmentable Data for All Information

As a university researcher I want to segment and download large-scale data so I can analyze response types compared to other cities using 311.

As a newspaper reporter I want to access data via an API so I can publish my own map in relation to a story.

Non-Internal Government Users

Data About Constituents

As a city council member I want to find data about my district so I can develop policy based on 311-related needs.

Data Visualizations - Immediate Response

As a executive branch worker I want to quickly segment and visualize data so I can answer citizen questions about recent events in a quickly-digestible format.

Data Visualizations - Proactive Response

As a city council worker I want to segment and visualize large-scale data so I can provide information about long-term projects to citizens.