Data Day Presentation Materials

This session will frame and start our day of discussing building equitable neighborhoods and addressing inequity in our local communities. Join us for a conversation on what equity planning is, how we can address equity planning from a disciplinary perspective, as well as how to use the many resources for equity in Baltimore. We’ll be going over topics like Baltimore’s equity academy, ordinances, and neighborhood planning groups, all to address how each of us can take action to develop better equitable communities in Baltimore.

Tonya Sanders, Ph.D, Morgan State University
Stephanie Smith, Baltimore City Department of Planning
Dr. Doris Minor Terrell, Broadway East (Last mile, Gay St Greening, Greenprint)
Regina Hammond, Johnston Square

Polymath Python (Workshop)

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io86ai32-Po

Session Resource Guide

Python has become a top choice for….just about everything. You can use Python to approach solving problems across many disciplines as well as how to get started on your Python journey. Join this session to see some interesting ways to leverage Python to do some amazing things!

Aaron Brooks, Founder and CEO of MASTERMND

Racial Implications of Housing Insecurity (declining Homeownership, Evictions)

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLLB7XZuDM

Session Resource Guide

The landscape of Baltimore’s home ownership and demographics are constantly changing. In this session, panelists will be discussing the declines in home ownership and it’s impacts on different areas of Baltimore as well as issues like evictions and affordable housing and how we can begin to address them. We’ll also get a demonstration of how to navigate the Baltimore Eviction Map, which shows risks of evictions, actual evictions, and other neighborhood factors like segregation and redlining.

Claudia Wilson Randall, Community Development Network of Maryland
Timothy Thomas, UC Berkeley, Baltimore Eviction Map
Allan Mallach, Center for Community Progress
Sally Scott, UMBC Community Leadership Programs
Althea Saunders-Ranniar, Bon Secours Community Works

Employment and Small Business

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H45PMOJMYH8

Session Resource Guide

Learn about data for communities to understand the current economy for jobs and small businesses during the pandemic

Kristina Williams, Charles Village Community District 
Ajjit Narayanan, Urban Institute
Mac McComas, JHU 21st Century Cities Initiative
Jay Nwachu, Innovation Works (PPP Loan Maps: Average, Total)

Streets for People – How Residents Can Use Data to Plan Slow Streets in Baltimore

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guVFVGZJ42Q

Session Resource Guide

Learn how to access Baltimore city open data and use it to identify streets in your own community that could qualify for and create attractive & effective “slow streets”.

Yolanda Takesian, Kittleson & Associates
Liz Gordon, Kittleson & Associates
Carol Kachadorian, AARP
Graham Young, Complete Streets Manager
Matthew Hendrickson, Lead Bike Planner and Slow Streets Project Manager

Impact of Smart Surfaces for Mitigating Urban Heat

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gM5-QZseKA

Session Resource Guide

From paving lots to choosing a material for your roof, our neighborhoods play a huge role in the future of the environment and public health. Come learn about how to calculate the risks and benefits of reducing heat-absorbing pavement and how non-green development patterns can contribute to increased air pollution, higher temperatures, and negative long-term public health. We’ll be discussing how to advocate for greener environments in our local communities and how to address environmental concerns as a matter of public health as well. This panel will also include a demonstration of Baltimore’s new Smart Surfaces Coalition tool.

Beth Harber, Abell Foundation
Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of American Public Health Association
Elisabeth Gawthrop, Columbia University
Ryan McCuaig, Smart Surfaces Coalition
Greg Kats, Smart Surfaces Coalition
Kimberley Knox, Baltimore City Department of Planning

Data for Food Security

Link to Recording: https://youtu.be/TBpGlLfSmcA

Session Resource Guide

Learn how communities use data to address food security during the current pandemic and beyond

Elizabeth Rice, France Merrick Foundation
Caitlyn Misiaszek, JHU Maryland Food Map and COVID-19
Suzanne Poandl, 211 Maryland United Way Helpline
Sha’Von Terrell, Black Church Food Security Network

Investment Pitch Competition: Investment Connection Live – Maryland

During this webinar-based, live pitch session, a select group of community-based organizations will present their potential CRA-eligible proposals to an audience of funders. The lending, investment, and service opportunities presented are exclusive to Maryland. Expect to hear several proposals in direct response to COVID-19. Proposal requests will range from $5,000 to $4 million for statewide efforts. Projects address digital equity, food access, small business finance, housing, and youth workforce development, and MORE.

Hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Discussion on Trust, Open Source and Baltimore

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDZurNZURpo

Session Resource Guide

Join this international panel discussion to learn about how the process of creating technology can embed principles of trust and transparency by collaboratively developing open source tools that engage intended users. Also learn about how HackBaltimore is bringing the community together to think through these issues.

Clare Dillon, Mosslab.io Ireland
Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean of JHU Sheridan Libraries 
Jacob Green, Founder of Mosslabs
Danese Cooper, former CTO Wikipedia, former Chief Open Source at Sun, Former Sr. Director of Open Source at Intel
Dionne Joyner Weems, HackBaltimore
Jayne Chartrand, Human Centered Designer, St. Francis Neighborhood Center
Torbin Green, Program & Operations Director, St. Francis Neighborhood Center

Data for Digital Equity

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91er8YCD7k

Session Resource Guide

Learn how can community stakeholders can use data to understand and assess the digital divide in Baltimore to advocate for change

Andrew Coy, Digital Harbor Foundation
Sarah Heaton, Baltimore City Public Schools
John Horrigan, Technology Policy Institute
Lo Smith, Enoch Pratt Free Library

Open Data on Internet Performance – An Introduction to Measurement Lab (M-Lab)

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx4GQCd6em4

Session Resource Guide

M-Lab is an open source, civil society led, platform for measuring Internet service. M-Lab’s has been used by governments, regulators, cities, and counties to understand Internet performance trends in specific geographic areas over time. Learn about the available datasets and tools from M-Lab, and how they can be used for planning, decision making, and advocacy.

Chris Ritzo, Program Management & Community Lead, Measurement Lab

Using Resident Data to Address Neighborhood Concerns

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vK9PVB5vuo

Session Resource Guide

Learn best practices for collaboratively collecting data within your community and how to use the Blueprint for Baltimore dataset to affect change in Baltimore.

Evan Serpick, OSI-Baltimore
Jose Serrano-McClain, HR&A
Eri Furusawa, HR&A
Tre Murphy, Organizing Black
Seema D. Iyer, BNIA Demonstration of Blueprint Open Data Portal

OpenStreetMap Mapathon to Address Neighborhood Data Gaps with MaptimeBmore

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NehNzKq3-fw

Session Resource Guide

In collaboration with MaptimeBmore, mapathon participants will learn how to add and edit points of interest on OpenStreetMap, a free collaborative and editable online map.

Hosted in partnership with MaptimeBmore

Maggie Cawley, OpenStreetMap US
Elliott Plack, KCI
Jonathan Dandois, Johns Hopkins University

Using Data to Support and Invest in Baltimore

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR06M42Peek

Session Resource Guide

Learn how philanthropy and investors use data to shape how they collaborate, prioritize their grant making, and advance racial equity during the current pandemic and beyond.

Yinka Bode-George, Maryland Philanthropy Network
Danielle Torain, OSI Baltimore
John Brothers, T Rowe Price
Jamye Wooten, CLLCTIVLY

Workshop: Getting Data for Your Community

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdT2OIRV8Tw

Learn how to use the US Census Bureau’s new data tool, Data.Census.Gov

Noemi Mendez, US Census Bureau

Data Science Corps Ignite Session and Brainstorming

Link to recording: https://youtu.be/ivoAFTinbsg

Session Resource Guide

Learn about the Baltimore Data Science Corps comprised of students in the area who are gaining both academic and hands-on experience through real-world data science projects. Community groups and organizations are encouraged to join in the conversation to identify what kinds of projects students using data science could help advance social good in Baltimore.

Seema Iyer, PhD, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance
Dr. Aryya Gangopadhyay, PhD, UMBC
Brian Kelly
Ruth Robinson, Priya Kanneboyina
Michael Vandi, Naomi Watts

Data Day 2019

Welcoming Remarks–See LiveStream Presentations

Preparing Baltimore for Census 2020

Learn how Census data is collected and how you can ensure a complete count during the 2020 enumeration.

Moderator: John Willis, University of Baltimore
Julius Maina, U.S. Census Bureau
Austin Davis, Baltimore City Department of Planning

Qualitative Data/Archives

Learn how to access neighborhood collections at the University of Baltimore and other area repositories for preserving and improving quality of life.

Moderator: Betsy Nix, University of Baltimore
Fatemeh Rezaei, Robert L. Bogomolny Library, University of Baltimore
Nicole King, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Lauren Schiszik, Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation

Community-Engaged Data

Identify ways that communities can use and engage with datasets to build cleaner, safer, and more-connected neighborhoods.

Moderator: Ben Hyman, Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, Inc.
Dan Hymowitz, Mayor’s Office of Performance and Innovation
Tonya Nashay Sanders, Morgan State University
Sarah Wallace, Vision to Life

Poverty Measurement and Education Data: What the Data Can and Can’t Tell You

Understand how education leaders use data to measure socioeconomic status of students and how these data should be used when poverty measurement changes have unintended consequences.

Moderator: Theresa Jones, Baltimore City Public School System
Christopher Wohn, Baltimore City Public School System
Faith Connolly, Johns Hopkins School of Education
Matt Hornbeck, Hampstead Hill Academy

Lessons from the Baltimore Data Jam Competition

Bess Caplan, Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Kaitlyn Beyer, Caroline Benda, Alee Marschke, Hereford High School

Digital Equity

Learn how to get (or create!) data about where and how Baltimoreans are getting online.

Moderator: Stephanie Smith, Baltimore City Department of Planning
Mike Fried, Baltimore City Health Department
Dave Troy, 410 Labs
Lo Smith, Enoch Pratt Free Library

Using Crime Data to Track Performance and Community Safety

Learn how different kinds of agencies and groups access and responsibly interpret crime information to better understand and improve neighborhood safety.

Moderator: Christine Zhang, Baltimore SunM/a> | Google Doc of Additional Resources
Justin Elszasz, Mayor’s Office of Performance and Innovation
Rene Najera, Epidemiologist and Blogger
Kristina Williams, Charles Village Community Benefits District

Homeownership Education and Counseling

Learn about data used for outreach and assistance for homeownership education and counseling and how organizations overcome barriers to homeownership for Black and Latino homebuyers.

Moderator: Claudia Randall, Southeast Community Development Corporation
Antoine Thompson, National Association of Real Estate Brokers
Kareema Pinder, Neighborhood Housing Services
Kate Jakuta, Southeast Community Development Corporation

Public Transportation

By the end of this session, participants will know how to access the MTA bus on-time performance dataset and use it to understand and take action in their own communities.

Moderator: Yolanda Takesian, Kittleson
Leah Viskaowitz, Maryland Transit Administration
Philip Lacombe, Jacobs Engineering
Brian Seel, Upper Fells Point Resident

Data Day 2018

Welcome–See LiveStream Presentation
Seema Iyer, Introduction to Vital Signs 16, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute
Frank Johnson, Chief Information Officer, Baltimore City Office of Information Technology

Preparing for Census 2020
Philip Lutz, US Census Bureau
Annie Milli, Live Baltimore
Flo Gutierrez, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Baltimore Open Land Data Project (BOLD)
(Handout on the Tax Sale Process)
Amanda Davis, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance – Jacob France Institute
Kim Graziani, Center for Community Progress
Lowell Larson, Greater Greenmount Community Association

Open Data/Open Baltimore
Katherine Klosek, Center for Government Excellence – Johns Hopkins University

GEOLOOM Hack-A-Map
Danielle Walter-Davis, Baltimore National Heritage Area
Jonathan Dimes, JDimes MediVisual Communications / The Mural Hunter
Christine Hwang, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance – Jacob France Institute

Food Environment Mapping and Indicators
Caitlin Misiaszek, Johns Hopkins University – Center for a Livable Future
Sarah Buzogany, Baltimore Office of Sustainability
Eric Jackson, Black Yield Institute

Leveraging Lending and Banking Data for Your Neighborhood
Cynthia DuRant, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Robyn Dorsey, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition

Putting Free Business Data to Work
Nancy McCrea and James Palma, Maryland Department of Commerce
James McComas, 21st Century Cities Initiative – Johns Hopkins University

Tracking Success towards Baltimore’s Sustainability
Lisa McNeilly, Baltimore Office of Sustainability
Seema Iyer, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance – Jacob France Institute

Data Day 2017

Welcome
Seema D. Iyer, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute
(Live Streamed Video)

Introduction to GEOLOOM: Cultural Mapping in Baltimore
Kristin Mitchell, Market Center Merchants Association

Baltimore’s Open Data Portal for Community Use
Jessica Clarke, Baltimore City Department of Finance

Multi-Modal Transportation Data for Communities
Jaime McKay, MDOT MTA Department of Planning
Celeste Chavis, Morgan State University
Jimmy Rouse, Transit Choices

IGNITE: Vacant Housing, Trash, and Making Data Open in Harwood
Eli Pousson, Baltimore Heritage (Presentation Notes)

Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Website and Data Resources
Cheryl Knott, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance

Introduction to GIS and Open Source Mapping Tools
Jonathan Dandois, Fearless (Download Slides | Additional Materials)

Data for Social Justice/Equity
Kylie Patterson, Prosperity Now

Housing and Health Data: Keeping it Relevant for Neighborhoods
Hersh Fernandes, Green and Healthy Homes Initiative

Baltimore Focus Initiative: Using Data to Promote Community Development
Theo Ngongang, AECOM

Data Day 2016

Welcome – Video available!
Seema Iyer, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance – Jacob France Institute

Understanding Divided Baltimore
Joe Wood, University of Baltimore
Elizabeth Nix, University of Baltimore
Tylis Cooper, University of Baltimore
Eric Norton, Central Maryland Transportation Alliance
Sonce Reese, University of Baltimore
Darian Ripple, University of Baltimore

From Awareness to Action: Community Health and Liquor Outlets
Philip Leaf, Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, JHSPH
Darcy Phelan-Emrick, Baltimore City Health Department

Data-Driven Workforce and Economic Development
Linda Dworak, Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
Nesreen Khashan Census Bureau, On the Map

Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Website and Data Resources
Cheryl Knott, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance

Introduction to American FactFinder
Nesreen Khashan, US Census Bureau

Introduction to GitHub
Sophia Dengo, Johns Hopkins University Center for Government Excellence

Using Data to Keep Baltimore Safe
Andrew Jaffee, Baltimore City Police Department
Stephen Morgan, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Gross, Baltimore City Health Department, Office of Youth Violence Prevention

Mapping Art, Creating Community
Krista Green, Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts
Christina Delgado, Belair-Edison Neighborhoods, Inc.