Meet Casey, the User that Open Data Forgot

"Casey works her tail off. Every month she works incredibly hard pulling together a bunch of data from multiple departments. She carefully checks and double checks the numbers. She then summarizes them into tables and a few charts. (She would love to be able to map them but just doesn’t know how). When she’s all done, she emails the table and charts to her supervisor to file the official report. Sometimes, they end up being posted to the website where they can be downloaded. Next month, it starts all over. Casey describes this process using a couple choice adjectives: [1] Labor-intensive [2] Repetitive [3] Frustrating [4] Annoying  ... Let’s imagine Casey in a world where open data addressed her endless reporting problem ..."