{"id":1343,"date":"2016-02-10T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2016-02-10T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:40:15","slug":"new-research-tool-policymap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2016\/02\/new-research-tool-policymap\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Tool: PolicyMap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries have recently acquired the online data mapping tool <a href=\"http:\/\/shu.policymap.com\/maps\">PolicyMap<\/a>.\u00a0 PolicyMap is a Geographic Information System (GIS) pre-populated with more than 37,000 continuously updated data sets including information on demographics, home sales and mortgages, health statistics, socioeconomics, jobs and employment, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2016\/02\/PolicyMap.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1346\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1346\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2016\/02\/PolicyMap-300x213.png\" alt=\"PolicyMap\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2016\/02\/PolicyMap-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/files\/2016\/02\/PolicyMap.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the company:<\/p>\n<p>PolicyMap is an online data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US. Use it for research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Universities use PolicyMap in a variety of schools and curriculums, such as social sciences, urban planning, public policy and business administration. It allows them to focus on analyzing data &#8211; not collecting it or learning how to use expensive mapping software.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can students and faculty do with PolicyMap?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list__unstyled\">\n<li>Generate maps and tables to incorporate in reports and presentations<\/li>\n<li>Search by address, city, state, zip code, county or census tract<\/li>\n<li>Create topical reports by predefined region, radius, or custom-drawn region<\/li>\n<li>Compare data across geographies or view trends over time<\/li>\n<li>Find communities meeting up to 3 criteria on a map<\/li>\n<li>Download select datasets as csv files<\/li>\n<li>Rank geographies across an indicator<\/li>\n<li>Create custom regions for unique analysis<\/li>\n<li>Upload your own point level data<\/li>\n<li>Incorporate work into papers and presentations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What kinds of indicators will they be able to access?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list__unstyled\">\n<li>Demographic estimates and projections<\/li>\n<li>Income and poverty measures<\/li>\n<li>Employment by industry<\/li>\n<li>Homeownership rates and affordability<\/li>\n<li>Home Sales<\/li>\n<li>School performance<\/li>\n<li>Quick community profiles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What types of analyses can they conduct? <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list__unstyled\">\n<li>Compare obesity rates among states<\/li>\n<li>Track mortgage lending patterns in a city<\/li>\n<li>Understand the racial and ethnic composition of a community<\/li>\n<li>Identify neighborhoods with certain income and household characteristics<\/li>\n<li>Draw a unique geography on a map and generate a comprehensive report of the areas&#8217; demographic and economic characteristics<\/li>\n<li>Upload other data and leverage it against the trusted data available through PolicyMap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How could they use their analysis in class?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list__unstyled\">\n<li>Make a case for a particular public policy intervention<\/li>\n<li>Argue for a particular site for a business<\/li>\n<li>Describe a market for a business plan or marketing strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Libraries have recently acquired the online data mapping tool PolicyMap.\u00a0 PolicyMap is a Geographic Information System (GIS) pre-populated with more than 37,000 continuously updated data sets including information on demographics, home sales and mortgages, health statistics, socioeconomics, jobs and employment, and more. From the company: PolicyMap is an online data and mapping tool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2016\/02\/new-research-tool-policymap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Research Tool: PolicyMap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}