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Upcoming SAVI Events

The Value of Place: How to Enhance Your Teaching and Research with Free Mapping & Spatial Analysis Tools
This webinar introduces powerful desktop and online mapping and spatial analysis tools, data, and ot...
July 31 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Module 2A: Find Existing Data
Answering the questions necessary to achieve goals requires locating and using the right data and to...
August 12 at 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Module 2B: Avoid Data Pitfalls
Data is most powerful when you understand its limits. This module will give you the knowledge to thi...
August 19 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Module 3A: Analyze and Visualize with Charts
Charts are a powerful tool for analyzing and communicating information through tables, graphs or dia...
August 26 at 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Module 3B: Using SAVI Data in Other GIS Tools
SAVI provides a powerful collection of tools and resources that help you use data to make decisions....
September 16 at 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Sep 2, 2020 |

Polis hosted the third SAVI Data & Drafts event on Aug. 20. Unai Miguel Andres, GIS and Data Analyst; Matt Nowlin, Information ...

Sep 1, 2020 |

New data published on savi.org includes indicators about housing, calls for human service support, juvenile charges, and education ...

Aug 7, 2020 |

Incidents where IMPD used force have nearly doubled in recent years. The department used force 1,688 times in 2019 and 873 times in ...

Jul 30, 2020 |

Which areas of Central Indiana have experienced an increase in calls for help? Which populations have experienced a higher increase in ...

Jul 29, 2020 |

The Polis Center is using SAVI to help the City of Indianapolis’ Lift Indy program. Lift Indy is a comprehensive community development ...

Jul 7, 2020 |

The Polis Center is joining the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI, positioning IUPUI to serve constituencies more ...

Jul 6, 2020 |

July 6 IndyStar article looks at Polis Center's coronavirus zip code data to see what it tell us about local impact.

Jul 2, 2020 |

July 2 IndyStar article references the Polis Centers zip code analysis of neighborhood impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latino populations.

Jul 1, 2020 |

We added two new maps to the Coronavirus Data Hub. One looks at Marion County COVID-19 Cases by Zip Code . The zip codes with the ...

Jun 24, 2020 |

New York City was one of the first cities to be infected by COVID-19 in the United States. It has also been the worst hit, with half a ...