Seema Iyer wrote a new post 5 years, 5 months ago
Vital Signs 17, a comprehensive statistical portrait of Baltimore and its neighborhoods, marks 17 years of continuous monitoring of community-based quality of life indicators. The latest edition of the report, […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 5 years, 7 months ago
Since the Federal Opportunity Zones (OZ) where announced in 2017, there has been both welcome anticipation and also not insignificant anxiety about the impact that these kinds of funds could have on Baltimore’s […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
Data-Driven Decision Making in West Baltimore for Smart Technology Planning
See the Full Report Smart Cities Data Use Summary Final Draft
About the Project
Beginning in 2017, the Baltimore “Smart Cities I […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 6 years, 6 months ago
At the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, our research has shown that we must address and eliminate the disparities among neighborhoods for a more equitable and just city overall. In the wake of the […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 6 years, 8 months ago
Giving a ‘voice’ to local context by focusing on quantitative measures of neighborhood trends can help foster collaborative solutions by residents, elected officials, government agencies and other multi-sector sta […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 6 years, 9 months ago
In 2015, as part of a program called the USA Sustainable Cities Initiative (USA-SCI), Baltimore was selected as one of three US cities to pilot implementation of 17 new United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 7 years, 2 months ago
Baltimore Interactive Map Launches
Highlights Arts + Culture Across the City Along with Community Indicators
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute (BNIA-JFI) announces the launch of […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 7 years, 4 months ago
How can you get involved?
Nominate a dataset you would like to see hosted on Open Baltimore
Sign up to stay connected to the Open Data group with BNIA-JFI
Join any of the Code for Baltimore Meetups and […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 7 years, 5 months ago
Data from the latest Vital Signs report point to a pretty strange paradox: the top three neighborhoods in Baltimore with high housing voucher use (i.e. households are using a voucher to offset the cost of rental […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 9 years ago
The Sept. 14 edition of the University of Baltimore class, “Divided Baltimore: How Did We Get Here? Where Do We Go?,” featured three guest lecturers focused on the topic of segregation and the various forms it […] 
Seema Iyer wrote a new post 9 years, 1 month ago
The Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute (BNIA-JFI) has been a resource on the University of Baltimore’s campus since 2007. BNIA-JFI produces Vital Signs, an annual report on quality […] 
