how to use healthycity.org for uploading your own data

How to Use HealthyCity.org to Upload Your Own Data

Information + action for social change

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How have you used data or maps in your

work?

1957 Wally Freeland

Question for Participants

Learning Objectives You will learn…

• Healthy City – who we are & what we do

• About the data & data sources on HealthyCity.org

• How to create customized maps using data that is currently available on HealthyCity.org

• How to upload and map data you’ve collected, or have downloaded from another data source

Healthy City – who we are & what

we do

A national civil rights policy/action tank

• Find services and partners

HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:

Social Services & NonprofitsHospitals and FQHCsPublic & Private SchoolsGrocery Stores & WIC

VendorsAlcohol Outlets & Toxic SitesAnd much more…

•Map, Chart & Rank community data

HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:

Population Characteristics Civic ParticipationEmployment, Income & PovertyHealth Conditions, Diseases,

Injuries and DeathsCrime & Public SafetyHousingAnd much more…

•Upload data & Share your community’s story

HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:

Questions?

Data & data sources on HealthyCity.org

Mapping Data Provides Visual Evidence for• Community Issues & Needs• Community Knowledge• Coordination• Locating Assets and Gaps• Planning • Policy/Advocacy

There are all types of data around us!

Most of your organizations probably already have data that you’ve collected and handle on a daily basis.

Door knocking records

How many people your organization serves

Financial contributions

Data, Data, Data

Data Sources on HealthyCity.org

And many more…

Data Sources & Data

Directory

List of all Data Sources on

HealthyCity.org

List of all data on

HealthyCity.org

Click a Target and explore

data

Click a Sub-Category

Click an Indicator and

explore further

Variables

Geographic Units

Data YearsIs it

aggregatable?

Data Lingo Recap• Indicators

Age, Employment Status

• Variables Ages 0-5, Currently Employed

• Data Levels ZIP Code, Service Planning Area, County

• Universe Total Population, Civilian Population Age 16 and Over

• Metadata Supporting information about the dataset such as description,

source, year, universe

• Aggregation Combining data values from smaller geographies to create a

data value for a larger geography

Indicator

Variable

Universe

Questions?

How to create customized maps using data that is currently available on

HealthyCity.org

Click on Change to select your geography

Select “City”, then

“Riverside”

Click a “Target” to select data

Add a second layer of data:

Families in Poverty or Median Household

Income

Click the “i” tool and then click on map to see data

values

Change Data Level to view data by a different

geographical unit

See range of data values in the

Legend

Click Customize to modify your

map

Share your map:

• Export to Word• Print• Save• Email

Customize:

• Absolute value or Percentage value

• Number of classes

• Colors

• Data Range

Equal Interval

Black or African American (Non-Hispanic or Latino)

Data Ranges

Equal Interval

Quantile

Quantile

Questions?

How to upload and map data you’ve collected, or downloaded from another

data source

Click Datasets to upload your data

Upload your own Point OR Thematic Datasets

Upload POINT datasets: Create an Excel Spreadsheet

with up to 1000 points

Upload your own THEMATIC Datasets

Example from a Healthy City User:

Who: Betsy Morris, PhD

What: Working in the Bay Area with ANewAmerica to identify areas with concentrations of low-income immigrants to better inform planning and outreach

How: Identifying research questions, downloading data from Census, Uploading data to HealthyCity.org, Customizing maps and sharing findings

Find the right data column

Insert “0” in Census Tract column

EXCEL HINT: = (“0”&B2)

Spreadsheet is now prepped for upload to

HealthyCity.org

Time to upload the data…• Fill out the form

• Upload the spreadsheet• Align columns

SUBMIT

SHARE your map:• Export to Word•Print•Email• Facebook• Twitter

Questions?

Help is Available:

Click on • Healthy City User

Guideor

• FAQs

Thank You!