THI Teams with Socrata to Develop Mitigation Analyst

Trout Headwaters, Inc. and cloud software company Socrata, have designed and built a new data analyzer for the National Mitigation Banking Association (NMBA) that is reliable, fast, and wholly interactive.

Mitigation Analyst (mitigationanalyst.org) is a new website available exclusively to NMBA members that takes hundreds of thousands of lines of raw data and transforms that data into useable information.  This powerful system enables rapid ‘mash-ups’ of multiple databases, including U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ORM, RIBITS, and others. Rapid visualizations like graphs, charts, and maps take only seconds to produce, enabling a quick analysis of market conditions in a selected service area.

This new tool for NMBA members was made possible by the timely convergence of an open data mandate with emerging cloud software technology.

“Mitigation Analyst will truly facilitate better decision-making for our members by bringing together market data which has been historically very challenging to access,” says the NMBA’s Randy Wilgis.  “The association is excited to be working with Trout Headwaters and Socrata to develop this innovative and valuable tool for our members.”

With his first executive order, the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, President Obama ushered in a new era of open and accountable government. The President then backed up the order with the Open Government Directive, requiring federal agencies to take immediate, specific steps to achieve key milestones in transparency, participation, and collaboration.

“The increasing availability to public data has presented challenges, as these data sets become larger and more unwieldy,” says THI President and mitigationanalyst.org developer Michael Sprague. “While access to various government data is an important first step, making this data intelligent and useful represented a significant challenge. In that challenge, the NMBA found a significant opportunity to work with THI to build an interface that will create useful information from mounds of raw data.”

Seattle-based cloud software company, Socrata, focuses exclusively on democratizing access to government data. The company helps organizations improve transparency and fact-based decision-making by efficiently delivering data in a user-friendly experience on web, mobile and machine-to-machine interfaces.

Visit the Mitigation Analyst website: http://www.mitigationanalyst.org
Read more about NMBA: http://www.mitigationbanking.org/