9. A Little Bit About My Organization...
● Largest hunger relief agency in
Philadelphia area
o Serving 9 counties in PA and NJ
o Over 400 agencies
o Providing food to over 75,000 people
every week
● Celebrated its 30th anniversary
last year
o Founded in 1984
10. What do I do at Philabundance?
“Illustrate the true face of
hunger”
11. What do I do at Philabundance?
● Census data (bulk of my work)
● Legislative districts
● Determine areas most in need
● Combine open data and internal data (geocoding)
● Exploring interactive web mapping possibilities
12. Census data
● American Community Survey
o Poverty, SNAP, Income, Unemployment, etc.
o 5-year estimates, update annually
● TIGER Shapefiles
o Join ACS data to geographic files
● Build GIS database
o Multiple geographic levels (state, county, tract)
o Facilitates maps-on-demand
14. Legislative districts
● Congressional, State House & Senate
o Ensure food policy is priority
● Poverty rates, agency locations in districts*
o Poverty data from ACS
o Agency locations geocoded from internal data
18. Combine open data & internal data
● Guide decisions to target areas
o Food Help Line (800-319-FOOD)
Distribution of call locations (geocoded points) +
Weighted by census tract poverty rates =
Where are future calls most likely to come from
19.
20. Exploring interactive web mapping
● Looking into possibilities of web maps
o What data to show
Open data, internal data?
o How to present it
Individual maps for each data set?
One map for multiple data?
o Which platform to use
ArcGIS online, CartoDB, TileMill...
