1. Focus: HOPE
Output from the A2 Datadive (February 2012)
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2. Mapping Participant data
• The Data:
• Participants of various Focus: HOPE programs identified by their
addresses
• The Work:
• Associated each address with a Unique ID
• Addresses were “cleaned” of personal information
• Addresses were then geocoded (latitude, longitude)
• Points mapped to show geographic dispersion

3. Map of Focus: HOPE Participants
source: American Community Survey (files: “acsFocusHopeDictionary.csv”
and “acsFocusHopeEstimates”) and and Focus: HOPE participant data

4. Map of Focus: HOPE Participants
LINK TO INTERACTIVE MAP
ON GOOGLE FUSION TABLES
http://projects.datadrivendetroit.org/F
Hdatadive/

5. Doing the same thing in Google
Fusion Tables
• With formatted addresses:
• ex. 1342 Main Street, Detroit, MI 48238
• Save in Excel as a .csv file (comma separated values)
• In Google Docs, start a new “Table (beta)”
• Upload the address .csv file
• Under “File” select “Geocode”
• Under “Visualize” select “Map” to map the points
• There are ways to extend these maps:
• Fusion Table Layers Wizard (link here)
• Layers give richness to map
• Census information
• Additional points of interest
• Additional tutorial (link here)

6. A Demographic Picture of the Hope
Village Initiative Neighborhood
• Focus: HOPE’s HVI census tracts are not so very different than the
rest of Detroit
• How to read this table:
• N = number of tracts, Median, Minimum value, Maximum value
source: file “Census Summary Stats HVI vs DET.rtf” and US Census

7. Public Safety, Traffic, and Access
• Focus:HOPE facilities and other HVI neighborhood amenities
(schools, shops) may be accessed differently by different
participants
• HVI residents
• Walk, bike, car, transit
• Non-HVI residents
• Car, transit
• HVI residents may face some barriers to participation
• Pedestrian safety – noted by pedestrian injury and crash severity
on some roads
• Davison (people are using pedestrian island near Linwood, despite
topped barriers)
• Fenkell
• Fencing of commercial/industrial properties and small number of
North-South pass-throughs lengthens walk/bike trips

8. Public Safety, Traffic, and Access
source: http://www.semcog.org/Data/Maps/roads.map.cfm

9. Recommendations for Future
Data Collection
• Standardization across reporting forms
• Each program should use the same form
• Street Address should be in a separate field than Apt No.
• Makes geocoding easier
• Street Address should include:
• What type of street it is (Street, Drive, Rd)
• Directional information as necessary (West, East)
• To monitor participants across programs consider uploading
participant data into a Microsoft Access database
• Each participant would automatically be given a UniqueID
• You can create an interface to make data entry easier

10. Future Areas of Research
• Compare HVI area against a “statistically” similar geographic area
and compare over the life-span of the Hope Village Initiative
• Could run more “robust” statistics in the future of the impact of the HVI
• In the future, considering asking residents how they traveled to
facility
• Want to understand whether people are able to access the facilities and
if so how