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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

Jul 21, 2022 |

On July 20, Polis published a new article to SAVI authored by Polis Research Analyst Aaron Olson. “A Decade of Decline: College-Going ...

Jun 28, 2022 |

We will start holding monthly virtual SAVI Office Hours on July 28. Anyone needing one-on-one help using SAVI, working with their own ...

Jun 27, 2022 |

Polis officially kicked off its effort with John Boner Community Center and several community partners to support the Indy East ...

Jun 27, 2022 |

On July 20, in collaboration with WFYI Public Media and the Indianapolis Public Library-Central, Matt Nowlin will present Data & ...

Jun 23, 2022 |

We analyzed more than 283,000 bookings into Marion County’s jails between 2013 and 2021. We used this data to discover how many people ...

Jun 22, 2022 |

Indiana Senate Bill 230 would have required landlords to make necessary repairs to their properties. We examine the renters impacted ...

Jun 19, 2022 |

This report examines more than one million loan applications filed in Central Indiana from 2007 to 2020 to investigate racial and ...

May 19, 2022 |

Join us June 16 at 9 a.m. for a virtual event about Jail Diversion in Indianapolis. In 2015, criminal justice reform in Indiana ...

Apr 19, 2022 |

As part of our collaboration with the Central Indiana Senior Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, State of Aging ...

Apr 6, 2022 |

New data shows the number of subsidized rental homes in Marion County is stagnant, while the need for units affordable to extremely ...