AISP Toolkit Feb25 2025 - Flipbook - Page 46
WORK IN ACTION:
Data Collection
Open Data
Neighborhood Nexus, Metro Atlanta Racial Equity Atlas (MAREA)
CENTERING RACIAL EQUITY THROUGHOUT THE DATA LIFE CYCLE
Nikolai Elneser & Tommy Pearce
The Metro Atlanta Racial Equity Atlas (MAREA) is a digital platform that showcases how local systems
interact and affect neighborhood and individual experiences differently based on race and ethnicity.
It combines storytelling, interactive maps, and calls to action while equipping users with advocacy
and decision-making tools.
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Diversitydatakids.org, Child Opportunity Index (COI)
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia & the diversitydatakids.org team
The Child Opportunity Index (COI) is a composite index of neighborhood features that help children
thrive, capturing variation in opportunity across U.S. neighborhoods and over time. The COI is an
e昀케cient means of leveraging multiple information points from data that already exist, framed to
center racial equity.
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Criminal Justice Administrative Records System, Justice Outcomes
Explorer (JOE)
Jordan Papp & Chandler Rombes
The Justice Outcomes Explorer (JOE) is a publicly available data dashboard that provides a look
into how the criminal justice system touches the lives of millions of Americans every year. Using
data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System at the University of Michigan
linked with other records available from the U.S. Census Bureau, this tool offers novel statistics
on justice-involved individuals’ outcomes that more fully represent their life trajectories, including
characteristics related to recidivism, employment, earnings, health, and public assistance.
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