Third Place Winner of the CA State Health Data Code-A-Thon

1. CommunityBeat
Bogdan Rau & Carl Ganz
Jordan is a local government employee and an active
member of his community. Say “Hi Jordan!”
In the past, Jordan would spend significant time and
resources gathering the information he needed to
measure the “pulse” of his community. Countless
disparate data sets, coupled with a lack of funding to
his department’s “data budget” meant that Jordan’s
progress was slow and mainly funded by his desire to
create positive social change.
Until now…

2. CommunityBeat
• Dashboard that allows users to get a “pulse” of their local
community.
• Includes information from 7 trusted data sources
(including CHHS Open Data Portal, ACS, the California
Office of Health Hazard Assessment, and AskCHIS
Neighborhood Edition) and over 40 indicators.
• Provides tables and visualizations of important
demographics & social determinants of health, ‘healthy
beginnings’ vital statistics (such as birth weight & prenatal
care), pollution burden, local economy, and local housing.

3. CommunityBeat – Composite Measures
• Four composite measures to give an overall pulse of:
• “Healthy Beginnings” – takes into account low birth weight and
delayed prenatal care.
• Pollution Burden – CalEnviroScreen 2.0 score that measures
environmental health inequality.
• Local Economy Score – takes into account indicators such as
median income, unemployment, and poverty rate.
• Market Health Index – powered and created by Zillow’s Real Estate
Research Group
• “Healthy Beginnings” & Local Economy Ranks take
individual indicator Cohen D values & rank zip codes
based on a combination of the D values across the
indicators used.

4. CommunityBeat – Impact
• Jordan figured out that his community, located in 90001,
has a lot of work to do to make Huntington Park a better
place to live.
• 90001 is in the Bottom 20% of zip codes in terms of “Healthy
Beginnings”
• High environmental health inequality (CES 2.0 score of 53.52)
• Local Economy Ranking places 90001 in the Bottom 10% of zip
codes across the state (high poverty, low median income).

5. CommunityBeat – Future of 90001
• Jordan realizes that it’s not all bad news:
• Relatively young community: Median age is 26.5.
• Below average unemployment (though still high!): 10.6%
• Good paying jobs: average payroll/employee: $41.763
• What used to take hours of data management and big $
$$ in consultants, now took under 5 minutes!