Rhode Island Community Profiles

An Open-Source Indicator Framework

Ye Olde Neighborhood Profiles

• Providence only• Static products• Pain to update• Maintenance never

funded• A shelf for project

byproducts• Not searchable• Well used!• Popular!

New RI Community Profiles

• Statewide• Tracts, neighborhoods• Easy to update• Great expansion

potential• Interactive• Easy to navigate• Searchable• Open source• Replicablewireframe

Cub Scouts?

Providence Steamrollers!

How the InfoTools Work Together

DataHUB Community Profiles

Uses Protovis

Property Mapper

RIDEHEALTHDCYFFamily CourtBHDDHDOCCommunity ProvidersDHSOthers?

CensusSelected State AdminSelected City AdminFederal Admin (HMDA, Sec 8)RIGIS (advanced mapping)

Property Characteristics (tax roll)Foreclosure AdsSales/DeedsBuilding PermitsCrime/Fires?Code Enforcement?Projo ArticlesBlogsLead Compliance, exposure*Basic map context (income, diversity)Route Planning?

Some redundancy

is ok

Foreclosures?

InfoWorks LIVE!

School-Specific:DemographicsAchievementSpending (soon)Survey (soon)

Uses WEAVE

Overview Demographics Economy HealthHousing Education

Data Domains

State

Municipality

Tract/Neighborhood

Block

Geo

gra

ph

ies

Ability to seamlessly navigate domains and geographies

No backing up or out!

And robust search that leads to indicator-centric pages

More…

Community Profiles Navigation

Community Profiles Concept

Domain / Indicator Page

Search Results Page

Shelf Page

All Selected Admin Data

RIDE

DOH

DLT

Property Mapper

Community Profiles Data Model

RIGIS

DOC

BOE

Meta-data &

Published Indicators

Raw Census Data

Admin Data

Internal metadataInternal metadata

Geospatial metadataGeospatial metadata

Nhoodonly

All Selected Census

Data

Core Data

Census 2000 SF1

Census 2000 SF3

Census 2010 SF1

5-Year ACS 2006-10

State Police

Important Features

• Follows NNIP Data Domains

• Can connect to any data source

• Indicators are published, documented within

admin interface

• Calculates MOE for ACS Data

• Interactive data graphics (Protovis) and

interactive mapping (Openstreetmaps)

Profile InfoGraphic Features

• Interactive

• Vector graphics- scalable

• Image export

• Data export

• IE compatible