Information + action for social change

• Help reveal larger place-based dynamics that numbers by themselves cannot

• Connect community knowledge and data to location

• Support strategy through communicating patterns to a broad audience, clearly, quickly, and dramatically

Why Are Maps Useful Visualizations?

Healthy City is a project of…  

A public policy change organization rooted in the civil rights movement

…is an information + action resource  that unites rigorous research, community voices and innovative technologies

to solve the root causes of social inequity 

DIRECT TECHNICAL SUPPORT :

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and web tools

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Training community groups to lead and sustain action‐oriented research & 

technology projects

ONLINE MAPPING TECHNOLOGYwww.HealthyCity.org

• Find community resources and partners• Map, Chart & Rank community data• Upload data & Share your community’s story 

HealthyCity.org is a statewide resources that enables you to:

…to fuel social change and improve our communities

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Today you will learn how to:1. Find data for your community to assess the past, 

present and future.

2. Create maps that visually communicate your advocacy message to impact policy decisions.

3. Upload & map data that you collect in order to see the distribution of your clients, members, facilities, or other organizations.

4. Access additional features with a free Healthy City account.

1. 

Find data:You’re part of a BHC and want to find 

data about your community

Click on Change to select your geography

Select “County”, then

“Fresno”

Click a “Target” to select data

Choose a category

Choose a sub-category

Births in Fresno County:2,044 births were to Mothers

under age 20 which was about 12.99% of total births

Select a different indicator

Ability to view different types of

charts

Shortcut to map of this data

Click Show/Hide

description to see details

Click Show/Hide List to see data level

used for aggregation

Universe, Source, Year

Click Show/Hide List to see list of geographies

used to aggregate

How does this compare to the state of California?

View other years of data or multiple years at once

Learn about our data

Data Source Tips for Trending Data

Key Points to Keep in Mind:

• How old is the data?

• At what data level/geography is it available?

• How frequently is it updated?

• How complete is the data?

• What are the pros and cons for a specific dataset?

ACS v. Census

ACS• 1-year, 3-year, 5-year estimates• Data Level: Census Tract, City, County, Congressional District State• Has margins of error• Detailed demographic, housing, financial, social data• Free

Census• Every 10 years

• Data Level: Census Block thru State

• No margins of error• Basic population and housing

data• Free

Learn about our point data

Data Visualizations

Pie charts are useful for showing significant differences in percentages as parts of a whole. *Remember—values need to add up to 100% 

Bar graphs are useful for comparing data between different groups.

Line graphs are useful for showing changes over time.

Finding Data

Questions?

2.Create maps that visually

communicate your advocacy message to impact policy

decisions

Click on Change to select your geography