Library Guides: GIS for Public Health: A Guide: GeocodingResources

Geocoding Resouces

If you have address-based data that you wish to map in GIS, you'll need to assign latitude and longitude coordinates to your data so you can plot them as points.

Texas A&M Geocoding Service
The Texas A&M GIS Lab provides a number of geocoding services for translating addresses.
Geospatial Modeling Environment
Open source platform designed to help to facilitate rigorous spatial analysis and modelling

Data visualization

PolicyMap
Trial through May, 2017

Data-Planet Ready Reference
Quickly search and view charts, maps, and rankings of time series at the country, state, county, MSA, postal code, and census-tract/block group levels. All of the data are drawn from authoritative sources and are citable.
Social Explorer
Demographic data visualization and research website designed to engage users through dynamic maps and customizable reports

Instructions for using Data-Planet Statistical Ready Reference

Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
International data includes China Data Center, World Bank, Healthcare Utilization Project, EPA, USDA, CDC, etc. 13 data sets include consumer behavior, demographics, health, quality of life

Also includes EASI Market Planner with 13 data sets covering consumer behavior, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, consumer spending analytics, demographics, gross domestic product, health, industries, life stages, media, quality of life, and retail sales.

Tutorials

Using Open Street Maps
ArcGIS Tips and Tricks from Tufts
Great collection of tutorials for learning how to use ArcGIS functions and services. Includes tutorial on how to map drives, uncompress files, using census data, geocoding and georeferencing and more.
MIT GIS Tutorial
Tutorials created by MIT. Include exercises and sample data. These tutorials are a great way to get your feet wet and practice your skills.
University of Arkansas ArcGIS Desktop Tutorial
Six tutorials that describe common operations and functions used to manipulate and/or analyze spatial datasets
Learn ArcGIS
ESRI

PolicyMap

Policy Map offers easy-to-use online mapping with data about health,demographics, real estate, jobs and more in communities across the US. Follow PolicyMap on Twitter @policymap

SPHTM Faculty comments

"I attended the PolicyMap training and tried it. I love it very much. It has a lot of data related with demographics, incomes & spending, quality of life, economy, education, and public health. It will be helpful for my students in the database management class to get data for their final project and show them as a map."
"I think that having Quality of Life as a data point really struck home for me in this presentation."
"PolicyMap will also be very helpful for our research. I always want to have a map to show where our >13,500 recruited subjects come from. With the PolicyMap data loader function, now I can visually see it."
"The PolicyMap data will help the effectively execution of our new NIH grant too. It allows us to locate direct mail campaign areas in order to recruit subjects with age 20-30. The 3-layer maps enable us to easily locate areas meet our criteria. Meanwhile, it also allows us to download and share the data with investigators."

5."This is great!...Can use for so many projects!"

"Very cool and relevant to a grant [I'm] writing!"

PolicyMap
Note: Any content you create or upload through the Data Loader is available to everyone with a Tulane.edu email account.
PolicyMap Primer
Policy Map Quick Start
MapChats: A data and mapping webinar series
A webinar series featuring experts on a variety of topics—from public policy to education and the arts—and how their work incorporates data and maps
Mapchats Blog: Insights into Policy Issues, Data, and Mapping
Knowing Life Expectancy to Improve Public Health
October, 2018 Archived MapChat
Training Calendar
Two tutorials:
Learning the basics of PolicyMap
Learn the Data Loader, Data Download, 3-Layer Maps, and other Advanced Features

PolicyMap Primary DataSources
Demograhics, Income & Spending, Economy, Education, Health, Federal Guidelines, Analytics

GeoHealth

GeoHealth
A secure Geographic Information System (GIS) based, electronic, interactive mapping application. It includes federal and public agencies (i.e. NOAA, USGS as well as other NGOs) into a single visual environment for enhanced situational awareness, assessment, and management of resources for planning, response to natural, man-made or pandemic events. GeoHEALTH is able to display many different datasets and information feeds including local data feeds to help all involved work with a more complete aggregation of data, thus allowing for more coordinated decision making and response.