Focus: HOPEOutput from the A2 Datadive (February 2012)

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Mapping Participant data

• The Data: • Participants of various Focus: HOPE programs identified by their

addresses

• The Work:• Associated each address with a Unique ID

• Addresses were “cleaned” of personal information

• Addresses were then geocoded (latitude, longitude)

• Points mapped to show geographic dispersion

Map of Focus: HOPE Participants

source: American Community Survey (files: “acsFocusHopeDictionary.csv” and “acsFocusHopeEstimates”) and and Focus: HOPE participant data

Map of Focus: HOPE Participants

LINK TO INTERACTIVE MAP ON GOOGLE FUSION TABLES

http://projects.datadrivendetroit.org/FHdatadive/

Doing the same thing in Google Fusion Tables• With formatted addresses: • ex. 1342 Main Street, Detroit, MI 48238

• Save in Excel as a .csv file (comma separated values)• In Google Docs, start a new “Table (beta)”• Upload the address .csv file• Under “File” select “Geocode”• Under “Visualize” select “Map” to map the points• There are ways to extend these maps:• Fusion Table Layers Wizard (link here)• Layers give richness to map

• Census information• Additional points of interest

• Additional tutorial (link here)

A Demographic Picture of the Hope Village Initiative Neighborhood

• Focus: HOPE’s HVI census tracts are not so very different than the rest of Detroit

• How to read this table:

• N = number of tracts, Median, Minimum value, Maximum value

source: file “Census Summary Stats HVI vs DET.rtf” and US Census

Public Safety, Traffic, and Access• Focus:HOPE facilities and other HVI neighborhood amenities

(schools, shops) may be accessed differently by different participants• HVI residents

• Walk, bike, car, transit

• Non-HVI residents• Car, transit

• HVI residents may face some barriers to participation• Pedestrian safety – noted by pedestrian injury and crash severity

on some roads• Davison (people are using pedestrian island near Linwood, despite

topped barriers)• Fenkell

• Fencing of commercial/industrial properties and small number of North-South pass-throughs lengthens walk/bike trips

Public Safety, Traffic, and Access

source: http://www.semcog.org/Data/Maps/roads.map.cfm

Recommendations for Future Data Collection• Standardization across reporting forms• Each program should use the same form

• Street Address should be in a separate field than Apt No.• Makes geocoding easier

• Street Address should include:• What type of street it is (Street, Drive, Rd)

• Directional information as necessary (West, East)

• To monitor participants across programs consider uploading participant data into a Microsoft Access database• Each participant would automatically be given a UniqueID

• You can create an interface to make data entry easier

Future Areas of Research

• Compare HVI area against a “statistically” similar geographic area and compare over the life-span of the Hope Village Initiative• Could run more “robust” statistics in the future of the impact of the HVI

• In the future, considering asking residents how they traveled to facility• Want to understand whether people are able to access the facilities and

if so how