how to use healthycity.org for uploading your own data
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Do you collect data about your community? Are you using the best tools to target your services, outreach or organizing efforts? Using www.HealthyCity.org to upload and map the data you gather can help maximize your organization’s efforts. This webinar is for individuals looking to better understand the usefulness of data for planning, advocacy and action. We will discuss the importance of data-driven decision-making, how to layer your data alongside other information available on HealthyCity.org, as well as examples of how user-uploaded data has been utilized for research and advocacy. In this webinar you will learn: - How to upload point or thematic data on HealthyCity.org, including how to set up your spreadsheet, input information, and how to transform your survey data into informative maps and charts. - How other HealthyCity.org users have had success in uploading and assessing their data for community research and advocacy, program planning, grant writing, and more. - The best ways to take the maps you’ve made on HealthyCity.org and share them in reports or social media. - About accessing our Help Center, which has a User Guide, video tutorials, and recorded webinars that can help you over any technical hurdles.TRANSCRIPT
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!