Census 2020

[Aycrazy]

About the group

A high level overview of your breakout group. What problem are you trying to solve? Make this simple and jargon-free. Links are good too!

Group leaders

Valeria Cerda - Wisconsin Voices - valeria@wisconsinvoices.org

Who we're looking for

The State of Wisconsin is dedicating 0 dollars in getting the count out next year and we all have stake in it. But communities who have been historically under counted -- people of color, low income, immigrants and others-- always get the short end of the stick. Community groups are jumping into action to get involved and often are asking "How can I get involved?", "What role can I play?", "How can I make sure my community is counted and represented?". Come learn how Wisconsin Voices is taking the lead on making sure grassroots organizations can see how the Census is impacting them by hoping to create an interactive map where community partners can see data on the hard to count communities.

Tools

Currently have a prototype that was made using Google Mymaps

Relevant Links

Digital Public Works Project: https://digitalpublicworks.com/projects/66c23697-7e7e-4ec6-ab0f-aa2eaf214e0e

Google Mymap

City University of New York HTC Map

Simple leaflet.js map Andrew made to visualize overlaps in census tract and neighborhood boundaries that includes information from the CUNY HTC Map

Where we meet

Where in the space do you meet? Flipping Tables? The cafeteria?

Who we are looking for

People who know how to use mapping tools and software, who know how to embed tools on websites, people who have experience making interactive tools/maps for public consumption

Code For Milwaukee slack channel

The CfM Slack is a great place to coordinate between hack nights. We encourage you to set one up and share it here!

As you start your group (whether learning or working) consider the scoping questions in this document

[Aycrazy]

check it out!!

https://www.govtech.com/civic/Webinar-How-to-Take-a-Data-Driven-Approach-to-the-Census.html

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8328959311741523468

[Aycrazy]

What do we know about those in the undercounted areas and why they are unmotivated to fill out the census forms?

What matters to them? How do you try to test messages that may speak to these interests/needs?

Can we do message testing??

[brandendupont-mcw]

Spatial interpolation often needs to be employed when working with "overlapping but incongruent polygon features." Think of when census data is provided at the tract level, but needs to be disaggregated to a custom target boundary or precinct. Below are links to two Python packages designed to "streamline this workflow":

MAUP: https://github.com/mggg/maup

Tobler: https://github.com/spatialucr/tobler

[valeriafcerda]

Hey yall! Valeria here! Just connecting and thanking you all for your work and being thought partners on this! Just a follow up on my to dos, I owe yall a spread sheet of our partners boundaries so I will get that on here soon! After that, I would love to sit down and project plan another project on how we can continue developing things for this! It can be during Hack Night or before.

Let me know what you all think.

[Aycrazy]

Let's keep it rolling!!!! Welcome @jlew013 !

[Aycrazy]

https://www.votemovr.com/includes/html/WisconsinCounts2020EFA28065/SectionA_v1_widget.html?link_id=0&can_id=ad31af3436b4379e3be8529d8c8bf70c&source=email-we-commit-to-be-counted-census2020&email_referrer=email_631562&email_subject=we-commit-to-be-counted-census2020

[Aycrazy]

Working doc for project facilitation

Latest civis webinar -- good ideas for this group!!

[Aycrazy]

Another useful set of resources

[Aycrazy]

Notes from Brigade Congress-- comms campaign --> CBOUND

[Aycrazy]

"Numbers need to show there is a need for services"

[Aycrazy]

https://www.challenge.gov/challenge/opportunity-project-prize/

[valeriafcerda]

Hey Yall, It was good working with you all and focusing our teams work by setting some goals, audiences.

Here is a doodle poll ! https://doodle.com/poll/5pn9epmfw68wni33

Please fill it out. We are really trying to craft something soon since this is very time sensitive. We are less than 6 months away from the Census.

[valeriafcerda]

Hey Yall, It was good working with you all and focusing our teams work by setting some goals, audiences.

Here is a doodle poll ! https://doodle.com/poll/5pn9epmfw68wni33

Please fill it out. We are really trying to craft something soon since this is very time sensitive. We are less than 6 months away from the Census.

Hey yall! Can you please make sure to fill out the doodle ASAP so I can block it on my calendar and not fill up with other appts.

[Aycrazy]

Do we have a date/time!?

[Aycrazy]

Messed around with making maps in leaflet and d3. Leaflet is better for our purposes. See repo: https://github.com/Aycrazy/undercounted_map/blob/master/index.html

[valeriafcerda]

Hey Yall! Please join us for the Census Workgroup. Here is the link for the calendar invite

Or just pop these details in your own calendar

Wednesday November 6, 2019 Location: 633 S Hawley Road Suite 102 Milwaukee, WI 53214 Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Please let me know if you can make it.

[Aycrazy]

Is something around this important to include in messaging? https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/research-matters/2019/10/balancing_privacyan.html

[valeriafcerda]

Is something around this important to include in messaging? https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/research-matters/2019/10/balancing_privacyan.html

its really jargon-y. How could we make create a message that non data folks could understand using this

[valeriafcerda]

See yall today. Give me a calll if you need help entering the building 4147360424

[jlew013]

Project Map.docx

[Aycrazy]

I'm not sure the project cards will work that well with using github issues the way we currently are. I think using projects would be most helpful if we were to share a link to an entirely new github repository (folder) and create the github project there.

[Aycrazy]

Look what Open Oakland made! https://llkats.github.io/dos-acccc/ (just a couple pages leading to the census form, but it's some helpful info and provides assistance in many languages!)

[Aycrazy]

Message testing info! https://www.civisanalytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Census2020_Whitepaper_v7.pdf

[Aycrazy]

Some great thoughts/considerations from @mitchellhenke

If prioritization of resources is the most pressing question, the initial solution is maybe something more rudimentary like a spreadsheet of census tracts that can be sorted by combinations of attributes, and the ability to get addresses within them

tracts with >Z% minority population and <X% return rate are first priority, then <X% return rate, or whatever

(just wanted to capture this)

[Aycrazy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aheRpmurAo

[Aycrazy]

Should we help facilitate an event like this? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zgJ3n_xUaqLlZY02eyjYkKgO1JKbmxhVKpTTpgALjmI/edit

[Aycrazy]

https://github.com/Aycrazy/undercounted_map

• Ought we consider the fact that kids from any given city are dispersed around the city, since neighborhood schools are few and far between (or non-existent)? What are the implications of this? How could this help or hinder ed/outreach?

[Aycrazy]

2 goals I think we can accomplish tonight are: updates on what we discussed at our Wednesday night meeting a couple weeks go and figuring the best way for chat --> milwaukee slack channel?

[Aycrazy]

Use connections to talk to folks from Wisdom and EXPO about our ideas.

[Aycrazy]

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Centers-and-Institutes/Center-for-Urban-Research/CUR-research-initiatives/The-Census-Bureau-s-2020-contact-strategies-mapped

[jlew013]

https://doodle.com/poll/v3y4c4it55qx398r

Hi guys. I'd like us to touch bases before next meeting. I made a doodle for the potential meeting. if anyone has other time/day suggestions, just toss it out there. Thanks.

[Aycrazy]

Reminder to pls fill out that doodle! Also, this article is very informative about security threats and project mismanagement as it relates to the on-line census info collection method.

"The president abandoned that effort in July after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected it, cheering civil rights groups who had worried it would dissuade immigrants from responding and cost their communities political representation and federal dollars. Still, an October 18 study by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that more than one-fifth of Hispanics say they may not participate in next year's census, compared to 12% of whites."

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2019-12-04/special-report-2020-us-census-plagued-by-hacking-threats-cost-overruns

[Aycrazy]

Minutes from the last CCC Leadership Meeting

[jlew013]

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/operations/planned-questions-2020-acs.pdf

[jlew013]

Census 2020 CCC Redux_1.11.20.docx

[jlew013]

Hi all! We'd like to meet up before the next hack night. please select the times in this doodle that work best for you. Thanks! https://doodle.com/poll/5v82nsipf5dy4ekr

[Aycrazy]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nGDxIZZ8u_kBDuGTtBF3JZ9maDLaeNucSMLTnPJcL00/edit