Add blog post explaining data published by zip rather than community area

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Add blog post explaining data published by zip rather than community area #124

Closed danxoneil closed 6 years ago

danxoneil commented 10 years ago

This will be a good task for Adam Pah

danxoneil commented 10 years ago

This is, generally, one of the topics that could find under the rubric of "numerically grounded stories"."

danxoneil commented 10 years ago

Some other ideas we've had laying around:

investigate and tell the story behind the precipitous drop in elevated blood lead levels
a post on how to use the Health Atlas data feeds

adamrpah commented 10 years ago

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JIFwdx85GYGjl8Kp4UvpvIBaOqMB-KIIwjR4f2PZFQw/edit

Initial draft that talks about zip code and data provenance. Needs some form of conclusion or call to action but I'm unsure what we want to advertise.

robparal commented 10 years ago

Adam and Dan: here are maps of Chicago zips and community areas. It might be helpful to put these up to visually show the difference.

zips community areas

danxoneil commented 10 years ago

@adamrpah: great draft. Can you make that document editable so I can make comments?

adamrpah commented 10 years ago

@danxoneil It is editable by everyone with the link now.

JamyiaClark commented 10 years ago

@danxoneil and @adamrpah can you please clarify whether Adam's document is specifically for the EHR component or generally about the data sources? I probably should have asked this prior to adding some of my comments.

adamrpah commented 10 years ago

@JamyiaClark I wrote this for the EHR component since I don't actually know all the specifics regarding the CDPH/Chicago Data Portal Data provenance. I would say it's up to the group whether we want to try to address everything in one fell swoop or have a different piece. Covering both in one document would be easy to find, but might be too much information for a reader unless they are really curious.

danxoneil commented 10 years ago

This post is specifically by Adam describing the CHITREC stuff. I edited it a bit, adding a copy/ paste from the Atlas about page (http://chicagohealthatlas.org/about) to frame the data sources more accurately (when in doubt, copy/ paste!)

JamyiaClark commented 10 years ago

Gotcha! Please disregard my comments.

robparal commented 10 years ago

@danxoneil and @adamrpah I don't know if this is the time to jump in, but I don't want it to look like I have not been following this. The issue I would raise is whether the site is definitively only going to use two geographic lenses (zips and CAs) and one data source for point data (Purple Binder). If that decision is a final one, then there is no issue. There is, however, data I am close to delivering to the team that is based on census tract or that is point data (hospitals, outpatient surgical centers, nursing homes) that is not available (I don't think) via Purple Binder.

danxoneil commented 10 years ago

@robparal wide-open to all geographies. This is merely a single blog post explaining the zip stuff.

robparal commented 10 years ago

@danxoneil thanks; I am close to getting you examples of what else we may be interested in. I will try to deliver tomorrow afternoon.

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@robparal https://github.com/robparal wide-open to all geographies. This is merely a single blog post explaining the zip stuff.

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