In this webinar in partnership with CORI, we discuss some challenges of working with rural data and why now more than ever, it's important to use mapping and data visualization tools to share information on rural communities. You can watch the recorded webinar at: https://go.carto.com/webinars/cori-rural-innovation

1. Using Maps to Support the Road
to Reopening in Rural
Communities
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Introductions
Chris Rowe
Geospatial Products Manager at
CORI
Dan Rushton
Content Marketing Manager at
CARTO

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Agenda
● What’s happening in Rural Areas?
● Why data visualization is so important
● COVID-19 Preparedness Tool
● Using COVID-19 related data sets

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What’s happening in Rural
Areas?
additional funding from
the CARES Act for rural
health clinics and
hospitals
U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services
of non-metropolitan
counties reported a positive
case of COVID-19
University of Iowa
84%
meatpacking & processed
food plants have confirmed
cases of COVID-19
The Fern
204$10bn

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Medical System Capacity Analysis
Self-Assessment Symptom Tracking

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Social Distancing & Mobility Change
Analysis

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Medical System Capacity Analysis
Medical System Capacity Analysis

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Food Bank Mapping
Food Bank Mapping

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Best-in-class location data streams:
Financial
Human Mobility
Road Traffic
Demographics
Housing
POI’s
Environmental
Global Boundaries

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Meet CORI
● A nonprofit action tank solving
America's rural economic crisis
● Empowering small towns to build
thriving digital economies
● Create mapping and data analysis
tools to allow rural stakeholders to do
better and more impactful work in
rural America

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“A lot of the early analysis was both
reactive & urban in nature... with
case counts rising in rural areas,
these places could start feeling the
full effect of the pandemic soon.”

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Building the Tool
CARTO Builder CARTO VL

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Data Sets
● The number of licensed hospital beds within a 40-minute drive.
● The number of critical care staff within a 40-minute drive — a measure of
the human resources.
● The percentage of the population age 65 and older.
● The county’s score on the Social Vulnerability Index, a ranking from the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that measures resilience
to natural disasters and disease outbreaks.
● Data from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and
Evaluation Covid-19 model.

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Scoring System
Very Low Preparedness ( score ≤ 20)
Low Preparedness (20 < score ≤ 40)
Medium Preparedness (40 < score ≤ 60)
High Preparedness (60 < score ≤ 80)
Very High Preparedness ( score > 80)

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COVID-19 Preparedness Tool

19. Thanks for listening!
Any questions?
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Chris Rowe
Geospatial Products Manager at CORI // chris.rowe@ruralinnovation.us
Dan Rushton
Content Marketing Manager at CARTO // dan@carto.com