Examples of Use Cases:

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 – not collecting it or learning how to use expensive mapping software.

What can students and faculty do with PolicyMap?

• Generate maps and tables to incorporate in reports and presentations
• Search by address, city, state, zip code, county or census tract
• Create topical reports by predefined region, radius, or custom-drawn region
• Compare data across geographies or view trends over time
• Find communities meeting up to 3 criteria on a map
• Download select datasets as csv files
• Rank geographies across an indicator
• Create custom regions for unique analysis
• Upload your own point level data
• Incorporate work into papers and presentations

What kinds of indicators will they be able to access?

• Demographic estimates and projections
• Income and poverty measures
• Employment by industry
• Homeownership rates and affordability
• Home Sales
• School performance
• Quick community profiles

What types of analyses can they conduct? Quickly and online.

• Compare obesity rates among states
• Track mortgage lending patterns in a city
• Understand the racial and ethnic composition of a community
• Identify neighborhoods with certain income and household characteristics
• Draw a unique geography on a map and generate a comprehensive report of the areas' demographic and economic characteristics
• Upload other data and leverage it against the trusted data available through PolicyMap

How could they use their analysis in class?

• Make a case for a particular public policy intervention
• Argue for a particular site for a business
• Describe a market for a business plan or marketing strategy

View a complete list of PolicyMap data or check out our Primer (http://www.policymap.com/blog/2010/02/policymap-primer/).