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Repurposes VASIS postal-address snapshots to measure repopulation after Katrina, publishes block-level Google Maps showing households currently receiving mail versus pre‑storm baselines, and spikes site traffic from ~5,000 monthly uniques to more than twice annual visits in one month. Pipeline converts ArcMap tiles via FME to Amazon S3, caches layers, and ties WioGeo REST APIs into Salesforce; fixes 700 addresses misgeocoded in medians. Results: usable maps that replaced planned door‑to‑door surveys, supported grants and planning, and defused data fights over a proposed hospital.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 3:18Census Bureau population estimates
- 9:40Holy Cross neighborhood association deployed spring break volunteers to rebuilding, rather than door-to- door data collection
- 10:05"Friends of Palmer Park" demonstrated critical mass of neighbors in grant proposal for new playground
- 10:21Community & Developers: Using same data to describe the impact of a new Hospital on residents in the proposed footprint FOOTPRINT OF PROPOSED HOSPITALS
- 12:25Leverage ArcGIS & Google Maps
- 12:47Migrate from static HTML to Django Framework
- 13:05Uploading data to cloud and Google Docs
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