{"id":6880,"date":"2016-04-07T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/?p=6880"},"modified":"2016-04-07T09:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:50:53","slug":"expanding-opportunity-with-open-data","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/expanding-opportunity-with-open-data","title":{"rendered":"Expanding Opportunity with Open Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esri joined the White House, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Census Bureau, eight cities, and more than a dozen developers last month to kick-off the Opportunity Project. The project aims to expand access to opportunity to every American, across every geography, using open government data.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6889\" style=\"width: 1430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/04\/wh1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/04\/wh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1430\" height=\"1073\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ArcGIS platform highlighted at the White House Opportunity Project event in March.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn the months leading up to the launch, the Esri team supported the federal agencies and White House to create accessible, highly usable digital tools, and to integrate the opportunity data into existing tools in the ArcGIS Platform.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Making Open Data Accessible<\/strong><br \/>\nEsri is incorporating opportunity data into the ArcGIS platform, Community Analyst and Business Analyst tools. These solutions host nearly a million user sessions monthly, making opportunity data easily found and used by future planners and software developers.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6882\" style=\"width: 1234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/04\/data.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6882\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/04\/data.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1234\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opportunity data is accessible through the ArcGIS platform, including this app created with Esri Web AppBuilder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEsri also created an app using the Esri Web AppBuilder to be able to explore the following opportunity data sets from HUD:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low Poverty Index<\/li>\n<li>Low Transport Cost<\/li>\n<li>School Proficiency<\/li>\n<li>Job Proximity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The app also uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median Home Value<\/li>\n<li>American Community Survey<\/li>\n<li>Other demographic data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This app enables individual users to easily combine selected variables from any of these data sets to inform decision making.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s not all. Esri is also adding capabilities to normalize information models across different government data services so people can understand and compare cross-jurisdictional opportunities.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6883\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/esrifederal.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapJournal\/index.html?appid=58846418bb834bcdaf7c54f3d02e399d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2016\/04\/storymap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"721\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/esrifederal.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/MapJournal\/index.html?appid=58846418bb834bcdaf7c54f3d02e399d\">Story Map<\/a> to learn more about the Opportunity Project and Esri\u2019s contributions to the movement here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<strong>Is Open Data Enough?<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening data for the sake of opening data is not enough. Making open data actionable empowers change at every level. During the Opportunity Project event, U.S. Chief Data Scientist D.J. Patil emphasized the need to create meaningful information products that invoke emotion and inspire change.<br \/>\nAs Jack Dangermond has said, \u201cMaps are the best medium for communicating.\u201d We at Esri have been communicating action through maps since 1969.<br \/>\nWe look forward to continuing to work with our partners and governments of all sizes to support access to opportunity, because, as Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Mu\u00f1oz said Monday, \u201cZIP code should not determine destiny.\u201d<br \/>\nCheck out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/03\/07\/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-opportunity-project-utilizing-open-data\">White House Fact Sheet<\/a> and learn more about the Opportunity Project, by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/opportunity.census.gov\/\">opportunity.census.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[275952],"tags":[4381,157432,118382,1171,279292,279302,279312,279322],"class_list":["post-6880","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-arcgis","tag-government","tag-open-data","tag-the-opportunity-project","tag-the-white-house","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-web-appbuilder"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Expanding Opportunity with Open Data<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/expanding-opportunity-with-open-data\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Expanding Opportunity with Open Data\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Esri joined the White House, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Census Bureau, eight cities, and more than a dozen developers last month to kick-off the Opportunity Project. 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