The WA State Department of Revenue has developed a very cool new visualization of the savings to taxpayers from various tax incentives and policies. It's a Tableau interactive visualization posted online, (see below) and the data behind it is also available for bulk download as an Excel file.
The visualization and data are part of the new 2016 Tax Exemption Study…
A creative use of geographic information systems (GIS) to assess property earned the Washington State Department of Revenue (Revenue) top honors from the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO).
Revenue received the 2014 Distinguished Assessment Jurisdiction Award for its property tax GIS application. The IAAO gives the award to an agency that has implemented a new…
Azure Sentinel: In support of WaTech's security incident and event management (SIEM) project, Microsoft has scheduled some training opportunities for Azure Sentinel. This would be a great opportunity for state agency technical staff to get a better understanding of the tool. Please see dates and times below. Any state agency IT staff who want to attend a session, and did not receive…
Microsoft is urging computer users running older versions of Windows - including Windows 7 - to update their operating systems as soon as possible to protect against a new vulnerability.
Microsoft released fixes on May 14 to protect against the vulnerability being referred to as BlueKeep. In a blog post on May 30 Microsoft stated "if recent reports are accurate, nearly one million…
WSDOT published a cool assortment of travel time data for I-405 a couple of weeks ago; not a ton of promotion of the dataset, but it's out there for folks to explore (here's a link). Now it looks like that posting has inspired one of the community of Tableau Public users to do just that -- explore the data with a different visual (embedded below). Cool example of how even a dense set of…
