#  Data2go.nyc 

 



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The platform allows users to map a number of New York City-related health variables, such as deaths from cancer or pre-term births, against demographic indicators such as race, income and education level. A holistic understanding of the relation between health and identity is invaluable to policymakers in the fight to ensure that the neediest populations in a city are served. The platform's measures The American Human Development Index, a composite well-being measure made up of health, education, and income indicators; it is expressed on a ten-point scale, and 10 is the highest score possible. Users can search by individual indicator or by neighborhood and each neighborhood has overall rating.



 

##  Stats 

Dataset(s): Measure of America's indexes, including US Census, departments of education, immigration, 3-1-1, city budgets, police department, voting records

Visualization: Map, Dashboard

Jurisdiction: New York City

Developed by: Measure of America



 

 



 [ Project link arrow\_circle\_right ](http://data2go.nyc/) 

 

 

 

 

  [### The Nexus Between Data and Public Health

 ](/news/article/the-nexus-between-data-and-public-health-967) January 24, 2017 

 January 24, 2017 Public Health This post originally appeared in Stephen Goldsmith's Better Faster Cheaper blog on Governing.com. In the not-so-distant past, government's involvement in community health generally was limited to providing services for... 

 

 

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