Evan Smith speaks to the crowd during TribLive, a monthly conversation with Texas public officials.
Evan Smith speaks to the crowd during TribLive, a monthly conversation with Texas public officials. Jacqueline Mermea

Comptroller Susan Combs said today that her office is studying ways to make more raw government data available to the public, and that her office is looking to efforts in San Francisco and New York for ideas.

Combs made her comment during the second TribLive event at the Austin Club. She also answered a question from Justin Keener, a vice president at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, about transparency in local government: 

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Matt Stiles covered government and politics for the Tribune, with a focus on data journalism, from 2009 to 2011. He oversaw and developed the Tribune’s library of web applications and interactive graphics....