News & Events
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 pmModule 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 amModule 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 pmModule 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 amModule 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
Latest News from SAVI
Transportation Equity and the Older Adult Population
Join Polis, WFYI Public Media, and the Central Indiana Senior Fund on Dec. 8 at 9 a.m., for a State of Aging in Central Indiana public ...
New Make Your Own Data Tool
We launched a new “Map your own data” tool to SAVI. It was developed for faith-based organizations as part of the Religion and Urban ...
SAVI Talks Indianapolis Racial Equity Report Card
On October 27, the SAVI Talks event will focus on the project, Indianapolis Racial Equity Report Card. This event will be a bit ...
Identifying Disparities in Arrest and Prosecution Data in Indianapolis
Polis is involved in a new cross-site study with The Urban Institute and the Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative through the Catalyst ...
SAVI Talks: Equity Report Card for City of Indianapolis
SAVE THE DATE: On October 27, our SAVI Talks event will share phase one findings for the project, Equity Report Card for City of ...
How is Indianapolis Doing?
We’ve started a new SAVI project, How Is Indianapolis Doing?, which will provide monthly updates on how the Indianapolis metro area is ...
Data and Drafts: High-Need, High-Paying Jobs
What does it mean to have “good job”? Over the past several months, WFYI reporter Sydney Dauphinais has dug into what it ...
Bangladesh visitors stop by Polis Center to learn about Encyclopedia of Indianapolis project
On August 2, The Polis Center hosted five visitors from Bangladesh traveling to the U.S. under the auspices of the U.S. Department of ...
Encyclopedia of Indianapolis Updates
The Polis Center updated the Digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis with new content from the editorial team and continued work on new ...
Data & Drafts: Developing a Real-Time Eviction Tracker
On August 11, in collaboration with WFYI Public Media, the Indianapolis Public Library-Central, and Sun King Brewing, Polis Interim ...