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Upcoming SAVI Events
SAVI Data Literacy – Tell Stories with Data
This workshop teaches the next steps of persuasively communicating what you have learned afte...
March 17 at 2:30 pm - 4:30 pmSAVI Data Literacy – Make Decisions with Data
March 31 at 2:30 pm - 4:30 pmSAVI Data Literacy: Frame the Problem
Before you can begin using data to inform decisions, identify what you are trying to accompli...
April 7 at 2:30 pm - 4:30 pmSAVI Data Literacy – SAVI Data, Tools, and Other Resources
April 14 at 2:30 pm - 4:30 pmThe Value of Place: How to Enhance your Teaching and Research with Free Mapping and Spatial Analysis Tools Webinar
This webinar showcases a range of powerful desktop and online mapping and spatial analysis tools, da...
April 16 at 1:00 pm
Latest News from SAVI
Analyzing City Policy Budgets
The Urban Institute awarded Polis an $80,000 grant as part of an 18-month cross-site study funded by the Tableau Foundation to analyze ...
Polis Center Best of Tech Nominee 2022
The TechPoint Mira Awards Gala is April 23, at which winners will be announced. The Polis Center is nominated for the Community Impact ...
‘I’m not moving.’ Riverside residents worry as gentrification looms alongside 16 Tech
“The Riverside neighborhood on the west side used to feel like family to Alisha Madden, who moved there several years ago after a ...
Far Eastside Indy transportation access gap addressed with micro-transit program
“In a community SAVI considers one of the city’s most car-dependent, Pathway Resource Center has launched a mini bus service with the ...
Horizon House fighting disparities in homelessness
“Despite only making up 28% of the Indianapolis population, 54% of homeless people in Indianapolis are African American. Though there ...
How can geospatial data and technologies help you
Marianne Cardwell and Sharon Kandris, along with Jinha Jung, Associate Professor at Purdue’s Lyle School of Engineering, presented ...
Living in the Community with Dementia
On Feb. 10, Polis will conduct the webinar, “Living in the Community with Dementia ,” as part of the SoAR project. Speakers include ...
Polis partners with Indianapolis City County Council
The Polis Center is partnering with the Indianapolis City-County Council to build its capacity to use community-level data in its ...
U.S. Census Bureau Presents Health & COVID-19 Open Data for Good Grand Challenge Award to The Polis Center/SAVI
The Polis Center and its SAVI community information system received a U.S. Census Bureau Open Data for Good Grand ...
David Bodenhamer to retire as Polis Center Executive Director; Sharon Kandris to serve as interim
The Polis Center at IUPUI—a nationally-recognized and dynamic urban-centered learning environment which excels in partnerships, ...