About Us
What is Allegheny Data Institute?
Allegheny Data Institute (ADI) is a platform dedicated to making public data accessible to the community, empowering local residents and advocacy groups with reliable data and insights for informed decision-making.
How does ADI ensure accuracy and accessibility?
ADI prioritizes transparency and simplicity in its data presentation. We utilize rigorous research methods and collaborate with local experts to ensure that the data we provide is both accurate and easy to understand for all community members.
Who benefits from ADI’s services?
ADI serves a diverse audience, including community members, local advocacy groups, and researchers. Our goal is to empower anyone interested in civic engagement and data-driven decision-making, regardless of their background or expertise.
Is Allegheny Data Institute a not-for-profit?
ADI’s mission is to serve the community without profit, focusing on providing valuable data resources for free to enhance civic engagement and advocacy efforts. However, ADI is not a 501(c)(3).
How can I get involved with ADI?
You can get involved with Allegheny Data Institute by collaborating with us on data analytics, visualizations, brief writing, database management, and research projects. We are a volunteer run organization.
How does ADI get it’s financial support?
ADI accepts donations only from individuals. We do not accept funding from corporations, foundations, or government sources in order to maintain our independence.
Founder/Executive Director
Paul ‘Pablo’ Dordal is the founder of the Allegheny Data Institute (ADI), an independent civic data initiative dedicated to making information about life in Allegheny County accessible, understandable, and useful to the public.
Pablo brings an interdisciplinary background spanning organizational leadership, nonprofit management, public administration, strategic planning, and data science. He holds a doctorate in management and a master’s degree in intercultural studies and has spent much of his professional life working with public-service organizations, non-profits, and faith-based community groups.
Across these settings, his work has consistently focused on helping leaders and organizations understand their mission, evaluate their effectiveness, and translate values into meaningful action. In recent years, Pablo has expanded that work through data analytics and data science, developing skills in statistical analysis, data visualization, and database design.
Pablo founded the Allegheny Data Institute from a simple conviction: important public data should not be accessible and understandable only to specialists. ADI brings together data on county government, demographics, economics, housing, transportation, public health, public safety, the environment, and other areas of civic life in one platform and presents it in straightforward dashboards, briefs, visualizations, and analysis.
A particular focus of his work is identifying persistent economic and social disparities and providing the public with tools to evaluate whether government and institutions are producing meaningful systemic change.
Through Allegheny Data Institute, Pablo hopes to combine rigorous analysis with public accessibility—providing reliable information without telling people what conclusions they must draw from it.