Help Students Across Disciplines Make an Impact with Good Data PolicyMap

Submitted by Amigos on Thu, 2023-04-20 13:33

Is PolicyMap's state-of-the-art mapping platform and vast geographic data warehouse on your database list? PolicyMap Academic Subscriptions include the custom-branded website allowing unlimited concurrent users and access to all subscription-level features. This Spring, Amigos members that commit to adding PolicyMap as a new annual resource before June 30th, will receive several extra months at no charge. Amigos partners with PolicyMap to provide discounts, central licensing, and invoicing. New academic subscribers that commit to an annual subscription before the fiscal year’s end will receive free access through June 30, 2023.

Maps are an invaluable tool for students to support their education and research by providing visual and spatial information to enhance their understanding of community needs, resources, and intractable challenges. With PolicyMap, school communities will have access to tens of thousands of datasets through the platform, eliminating the need to find and standardize data from disparate sources. PolicyMap curates and standardizes +75,000 indicators from over 150 authoritative public and proprietary data sources. Users can also upload their data to the platform.

How Maps and Data Help Students Across Disciplines Make an Impact with Good Data from the easy-to-use platform:

  • Explore spatial patterns and relationships between social, economic, health, and environmental factors
  • Identify inequities, track disease outbreaks, and plan public health interventions using social determinants of health
  • Determinate the locations of healthcare facilities, community resources, and social services relevant to their community needs
  • Pinpoint disaster-prone areas and plan emergency response strategies
  • Recognize areas with high rates of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, and target health promotion activities
  • Understand how policy interventions affect communities in need and identify social, economic, and health disparities
  • Analyze the distribution of environmental hazards, such as areas of high lead exposure and toxic waste, and understand their impact on public health and the environment
  • Analyze access to transportation, parks, education, medical care, digital infrastructure, and connectivity
  • Identify areas where transportation, computer, and internet access can improve access to jobs, education, and other opportunities
  • Understand the changing aspects of housing markets and the challenges of affordability, segregation, and equity that can arise in different geographic areas

New and updated data

  • The Diversity Index, plus Predominant Race/Ethnicity Data
  • Racial Housing Disparity data
  • Home Sale data (zip code level)
  • Area Fair Market Rent (FMR)
  • IRS Migration data
  • The Area Deprivation Index from the University of Wisconsin
  • CDC PLACES data
  • Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) 
  • High School Graduation Rates from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

And additional features:

  • Export machine-readable data via the downloader  
  • Increased limits for uploading your address-level data  
  • Brand new Map Extent feature 
  • New Map Legend Features
  • Citation Generator
  • Premium datasets include Consumer Spending Habits, Medical Spending Estimates, Chronic Health Conditions, Risk Factors Related to Health, Home Sale data at the Zip Code level, Broadband Availability at the census block level, Home Ownership and Rental Affordability Estimates, Mortgage Loan and Mortgage Loan Denials, Opportunity Zone Resources and more.
  • PolicyMap Premium Features: Community Health Report, a new Premium Download Modal, New Map Legend Features, and a brand new Data Uploader

Sign-up for a trial, demo, pricing, or scheduling a meeting today!

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