GitHub – DataViz

Designing a school search tool with Achieve Hartford

October 24, 2014January 6, 2016Jack Dougherty

In summer 2014 we collaborated with Achieve Hartford to design a school search tool that shows city parents their eligible public school choices. Our goal is to replace the existing SmartChoices site, which Trinity created in 2008, with a simpler tool that’s easier for a small non-profit organization to maintain on their own. To accomplish this task, we turned to Google Fusion Tables and the Searchable Map Template created by Derek Eder at DataMade in Chicago. Derek worked with us to expand his open-source code (available on GitHub) to display a sortable table of results in addition to the interactive map. It’s a responsive design, meaning that it adjusts the display to fit the size of your device, such as tablets and smartphones. Learn more about the background of this project and explore the beta version of SmarterHartford.org (which will be publicly launched soon).

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Affordability and Transit Map by Partnership for Strong Communities

October 13, 2014October 13, 2014Jack Dougherty

Diana Deng from the Partnership for Strong Communities created this interactive map of housing affordability and mass transit, based on guidance provided by Veronica Armendariz and the DataViz team at Trinity College. This map draws data from an easy-to-maintain Google Fusion Table, and the interactive map platform runs on an open-access code template created by Derek Eder at DataMade in Chicago. Learn more about the map and explore it on the Partership’s site at: http://pschousing.org/news/new-partnership-map-allows-users-explore-connections-among-housing-transit-and-population

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GreatBy8 School Map

July 21, 2014October 15, 2014Veronica Armendariz

Great By 8 is a community collaborative focused on improving access to high quality services in the areas of early childhood education and health in the West Hartford area.

For GreatBy8, we created an interactive map that is able to allow users to look up their addresses in West Hartford and find different resources (such as schools, early childhood programs, health programs, and other programs) as well as seeing the demographics in each of their individual census tracts. Within each of the census tracts users are able to see the number of children 0-9, median household incomes, and percentage of adults with a bachelor’s degree and above. To see the different schools, early childhood centers, and resources around you as well as other demographics according to your own census area, type in your address here.

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Career Resources Inc. STRIVE Eligibility Map

July 21, 2014October 15, 2014Veronica Armendariz

Career Resources, Inc. provides youth and adults throughout Connecticut the skills, resources and support necessary for personal development, economic self-sufficiency and career advancement, and provides planning and staffing resources to the business community in support of workforce development and economic growth.

They have two main offices for the STRIVE program in the cities of Hartford and Bridgeport and have certain eligibility areas within each city. Users are able to enter in their address and see if their census area is within the eligibility area for the STRIVE program. To find out if you’re eligible, see interactive map here.

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Housing Mobility Map with CT Open Communities Alliance

June 21, 2014October 24, 2014Veronica Armendariz

Open Communities Alliance is a new civil rights organization that promotes access to opportunity for all people through education, organizing, advocacy, research, and partnerships. Erin Boggs, executive director of CT OCA, began working on a “Housing Mobility Map” with Prof. Jack Dougherty at the Connecticut Inequality Hackathon in spring 2014, and Trinity students continued to assist her in summer 2014. Read more about what Jack learned by participating in his first hackathon.

The Housing Mobility Map (based on Derek Eder’s open-source template) allows families and housing counselors to enter the address of a possible apartment or house, view surrounding neighborhood assets, and evaluate the level of opportunity in that census tract, based on a recent report commissioned by the CT Fair Housing Center. To explore the current version of this tool, enter in the apartment or home you are considering here.

Click to explore the current version of the Housing Mobility Map.