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A person’s financial well-being is nuanced, encompassing many different metrics and situations. A single dataset rarely paints a complete picture of people’s financial lives. Therefore, building a holistic understanding of financial well-being often requires linking data from several disparate sources.
Designing a New Access Measure for the Spatial Equity Data Tool API
- The Urban Institute’s Spatial Equity Data Tool (SEDT) is a free, powerful software that allows users to upload point spatial data — such as the locations of parks, child care centers, public Wi-Fi hot
How We Elegantly Visualized Complex Measures for the Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Metrics
- In October 2024, the Urban Institute launched the Upward Mobility Data Dashboard, a tool for local leaders to explore 24 conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in their
Introducing the Urban Institute Data Visualization Style Guide’s Open-Source Excel Add-In
- Recently, we released an updated version of the Urban Institute Data Visualization Style Guide, including new details on Urban’s data visualization branding, best practices, and accessibility. Though
Analyzing the Privacy and Utility Tradeoff for Synthetic Datasets with Imbalanced Demographic…
- In recent years, synthetic data — or statistically representative pseudo records usually based on statistical models — have gained popularity as a way to increase data privacy while preserving the
The Evolution of the Urban Institute’s Design Library
- Imagine launching multiple websites in a year, each requiring replicating design elements like buttons, icons, and cards with images, titles, summaries, and dates across different pages. Each of these
Exploring AI: How Urban Is Piloting Guidelines around Using AI in Our Research and Policy Work
- Everyone I talk to these days is thinking about artificial intelligence (AI). My peers at research organizations, nonprofits, government agencies, and philanthropies are hungry to learn what others
