November 18th is GIS Day, an annual, internationally-recognized event promoting geographic information system (GIS) technology and its applications. Attend the local campus celebration to learn about how this technology is being used by students, faculty, community members. Or, check out the PolicyMap database to see how social data can be revealed through the use of GIS techniques.
PolicyMap provides you access to over 15,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs, quality of life, and more. You can view the data geographically at scales as small as street addresses or census tracts, through larger areas such as zip code, county, city, metropolitan statistical area (MSA), or state. Some data also have unique geographies like school districts and political boundaries.
These maps are just the ticket for supporting your speech, augmenting your marketing plan, or correlating voting patterns and social indicators. You can add multiple data layers and save your maps for later consultation and use.
Trouble getting started with PolicyMap? Check out their suite of guides, videos, and online training sessions to help you male the most of this new resource.
