Welcome – Autumn Reed, Associate Provost, Faculty Affairs, University of Baltimore
Introduction to Baltimore Data Day 2024 – Amanda Phillips de Lucas, Ph.D., Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute (BNIA-JFI)
Keynote Panel: How Youth Participation is Driving Research in Baltimore City
Young people in Baltimore are not only participating in research, they are driving projects that will result in new, rigorous, place-based knowledge. These projects center a fundamental idea; addressing challenges requires deep engagement with those most impacted by the problems a research project is trying to solve. In this keynote panel, we’ll learn from a group of youth researchers participating in urban greening projects and participatory work on mental health and environmental stewardship. Panelists will discuss how they got involved in these projects, the impact of their work, and provide suggestions for researchers or organizations looking to do participant engaged projects.
Panelists:
Kristen Mmari, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Michael Dorsey, Grow Home Baltimore
Shirley Suarez Lopez
Donnie Woods
Zaniya Watson
Lynde May Joseph
Research universities present unique partnership opportunities for public agencies and community advocates, especially in resource-strapped legacy cities like Baltimore. Morgan State University, Maryland’s premier urban research university, is working to develop close and productive partnerships with Baltimore community groups, city agencies, and even real estate developers to ensure the research conducted on its campus is in service to Baltimore’s community and commitment to roadway safety. Please join transportation researchers from Morgan’s National Transportation Center in conversation with Baltimore City and state agencies, developers, and advocates to explore how transportation researchers can partner with local agencies to collect, visualize, and parse data in support of safety interventions.”
Moderator: Brandy Savarese
Mansoureh Jeihani, PhD, National Transportation Center, Morgan State University
Erich Lange, West North Avenue Development Authority
Matt Hugel, Cross Street Partners
Violence is a global problem that affects people of all ages, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It can have devastating consequences for individuals, families, and communities. While there is no single solution to violence, data can play a vital role in understanding its causes and developing effective interventions. In this panel, we will explore how data is used to: identify the root causes of violence, develop targeted prevention programs, evaluate the effectiveness of violence reduction strategies, and advocate for policy changes that promote safety and well-being. We will be discussing these topics with local first responders to shine a focused lens on changing Baltimore’s demographics. By working together, we can use data to create a safer world for everyone. Join us for this important discussion and learn how you can make a difference.
Moderator: Sarah Wallace, For My Kidz, Inc.
Clyde Boatwright, President, Fraternal Order of Police
Ebony McClenney, Executive Director, Surviving Our Neighborhood, Inc.
Victoria Fox, Baltimore City EMT & Firefighter, BSW
Jerel Wilson, Executive Director, For My Kidz, Inc.
Join us for a dynamic workshop focused on community engagement and the establishment of the Community Research and Action Committee (C-RAC), a key governance structure of the Baltimore City Youth Data Hub. The Baltimore City Youth Data Hub is dedicated to fostering collaboration among communities, service providers, policymakers, and researchers to inform decisions and create equitable programs and policies benefiting Baltimore’s youth and families. In this session, we will delve into our community engagement efforts and the formation of the C-RAC. Learn about our collaborative approach to involving the community in the governance of the Youth Data Hub, including insights gleaned from community input and our process for selecting committee members. Discover effective strategies for recruiting community members to participate in data projects and hear compelling examples of how youth and families have been empowered to drive positive change through our initiatives.
Moderator: Tamirah Reaves, Community Research and Action Committee, Baltimore City Youth Data Hub managed by Baltimore’s Promise
Dr. Geri Peak, Two Gems Consulting, Baltimore’s Promise Data Equity Consultant
Kerra Dukes, Community Advisory Board, Baltimore’s Promise
Noell Lugay, Interim Assistant Deputy Mayor of Equity, Health, and Human Services, Baltimore City
Bridget Blount, Deputy, Chief Executive Officer, Baltimore’s Promise
Three University of Maryland, College Park journalism students and their professor describe a semester-long examination of the challenges small businesses face in Baltimore. What reporters found was unexpected: a deeper understanding of how small businesses contribute to the city’s social fabric.
These young journalists for Capital News Service will discuss reporting on the revitalization of the Mondawmin Mall area, the business culture in BelAir-Edison, and an unusual alliance between a printing company and a battle rap promoter. All three articles were published in the Baltimore Banner, which served as a partner for the project, and on Capital News Service based at the University of Maryland, College Park.The journalists started by examining a dataset Vojislav “Max” Maksimovic and Liu Yang created at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Maksimovic and Yang’s research, Seizing Opportunities: Small Businesses, Social Capital, and Banks, showed how small businesses with high social connections tend to thrive. The journalists filtered the data to find communities with lower income but higher measures of social connections. The panel will describe best practices in community journalism, data journalism and community engagement.
Moderator: Rob Wells, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Shaun Chornobroff, University of Maryland
Bridget Lang, University of Maryland
Robert Stewart, University of Maryland
Workshop Leaders: Ava Hoffman and Dexter Locke
Have you heard of “R”? It is a free, open-source programming language and suite of statistical packages used for all things data: data management, data cleaning, data augmentation, statistical analyses, spatial- and temporal-data analyses, data visualization, and much, much more. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce you to the basics of R and how to access US Census data – which is notoriously difficult to access. Participants can expect to leave feeling acquainted with some of the key concepts of how R works, with a knowledge of few basic commands, and with a reproducible pipeline for retrieving, analyzing and visualizing Census data. See materials for this workshop here: https://www.avahoffman.com/BDD24/.
Workshop Leaders: Nicole Bryant and Ebony McClenny
The “Stop the Bleed” workshop is a hands-on training program designed to empower participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively control bleeding in emergency situations. Led by certified instructors, the workshop covers essential topics such as recognizing life-threatening bleeding, applying pressure and tourniquets, and packing wounds to stop hemorrhage. Through interactive demonstrations, participants learn how to assess the severity of bleeding and implement appropriate interventions, equipping them to act confidently and decisively during emergencies. The workshop emphasizes the importance of quick action and effective communication in saving lives, providing practical strategies for bystander response. Participants engage in simulated scenarios to reinforce their learning and gain practical experience in applying bleeding control techniques. Additionally, the workshop addresses the importance of personal safety and the need for situational awareness in high-stress environments. By the end of the workshop, attendees emerge with the skills and confidence to intervene effectively in bleeding emergencies, potentially saving lives in their communities.
This session will include presentations from state, regional, and city partners showcasing how traffic crash data are used for planning and programming. Data analysis tools will be shared, with publicly available data, and infrastructure improvement projects around the city will be discussed. Attendees will walk away with links to crash data and an understanding of regional and city safety plans.
Moderator: Cindy Burch, Baltimore Metropolitan Council
Shanya Rose, Baltimore City Department of Transportation
Dylan Newport, Baltimore City Department of Transportation
Project VITAL (Vacant lot Improvement to Transform Adolescent Lives): While Baltimore City currently has over 18,000 vacant lots and 17,000 abandoned buildings, the City has developed a plan to ‘clean and green’ vacant lots in neighborhoods with large concentrations of vacancy. This provides us with a timely opportunity to explore the impact of vacant lot restoration on the health of adolescents living in disadvantaged neighborhoods, with findings that can be used to develop long-term strategies for improving adolescent health equity. VITAL’s data analysis team will discuss both the traditional on-the-ground, and experimental digital methods of site-observation they are using in this research.
Moderator: Kristen Mmari, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Rebecca Skinner, MSPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dustin Fry, Ph.D., U.S. Forest Service, Philadelphia Field Station
Marina Jenkins, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Organizations in Baltimore and cities across the US are committed to the maintenance, preservation, and analysis of longitudinal and emerging datasets. In this panel, you will learn about the work done by the Baltimore Education Research Consortium, the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center, the Baltimore Area Survey, and Hyphae Design Labs. This panel is an opportunity to learn about the work these organizations do, how they work with data, and how you can get involved. Topics discussed will include education data, long-term administrative data, recent survey tools, and using LiDar data at the neighborhood scale.
Moderator: Aliza Sollins, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Frankie Gamber, Baltimore Education Research Consortium
Bess Rose and Molly Abend, Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center
Michael Bader, Johns Hopkins University, 21st Century Cities Initiative
Merissa MacDonald, Hyphae Design Labs
The Baltimore Banner data team will demonstrate how it uses data analysis to uncover the important accountability stories hidden within large datasets. We will showcase specific examples from our most impactful reporting, including uncovering Baltimore’s unprecedented overdose crisis and demonstrating just how common large ships lose propulsion in Maryland waters. We will discuss the tools and methods we employ and explain our approach to prioritizing projects.
Moderator: Ryan Little, The Baltimore Banner
Nick Thieme, The Baltimore Banner
Greg Morton, The Baltimore Banner
Ramsey Archibald, The Baltimore Banner
Traditional economic development creates a singular focus on scaling small businesses into companies and corporations, with data collection limited to jobs created and revenue. These metrics paint an incomplete picture and are ripe for a refresh. A new subset of businesses are starting to emerge with a focus on building with intention and generating a positive impact in the community. For many, their ultimate goal is not to scale the business, but to define success through quality, longevity, and generating community wealth. This panel will explore how economic development can evolve to capture the impact and value of small businesses in our community. What other data & metrics can we track? How do these metrics show that businesses create positive economic growth for the community even when they’re not scaling? How are entrepreneurial support organizations using data to capture new and actionable measures, including those that they can influence directly?
Moderator: Michelle Geiss, Impact Hub
Brennan Murray, Baltimore Development Corporation
Charlotte Clark – Economic Recovery Corps
Andy Cook – Made in Baltimore
This session will be led by four Baltimore Workforce Development Board Youth Committee’s Youth Leader Interns. They welcome you to explore and learn about the challenges that current youth in Baltimore City face today, backed with data and personal experiences from Baltimore City youth. They will focus on three critical issues that young people face in Baltimore: mental health, transition to adulthood and employment. This session is not one to miss as our current youth are our future leaders!
Moderator: Sarah Cooper, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Lawrence Evans
Jazmine Green
Sela Powell
Nibria Roberts
Homeownership declined in Baltimore during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Baltimore, from 2019 to 2021, the percentage of owner occupied homes fell from 55% to 53%, while the Black homeownership rate (43%) remained 18 percentage points lower than the white homeownership rate. This session will feature presentations that outline the scope and drivers of Baltimore’s homeownership decline. Presenters will discuss their approaches to increase and maintain homeownership at the national and local level.
Moderator: Justin Williams, Deputy Mayor for Community and Economic Development
Claudia Wilson Randall, Executive Director, Community Development Network of Maryland
Bob Pipik, Executive Director, Healthy Neighborhoods
Laurie Benner, Associate Vice President of Housing & Community Development, National Fair Housing Alliance
Toni Davis Spivey, Assistant Vice President, Mortgage Community Mortgage Specialist, Truist
Organizations, agencies, and researchers across Baltimore use data to improve environmental quality and public health within our neighborhoods. This panel features presentations from Baltimore Tree Trust, the Mayor’s Office of Performance and Innovation, and alumni of the University of Baltimore to discuss how environmental data informs action and interventions to address tree care, urban heat, and hydroponics.
Moderator: TBD
Kajall Hylton and Marcus Tuah, Baltimore Tree Trust
Selenea Gibson, Mayor’s Office of Performance and Innovation
Jonathan Cleary, University of Baltimore
This session will introduce and describe data, resources, and programs from the City of Baltimore that can improve quality of life for its residents. Baltimore was one of the first cities in the US to develop an open data portal, launching Open Baltimore in 2011. Learn more about the platform and ongoing work to make improvements. Water4All is a water billing discount program designed to provide more equitable access to financial assistance for eligible Baltimore City residents who need help paying their water bills.
Moderator: Cheryl Knott, Assistant Director, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute
Rosalind David, Data Fellow, Mayor’s Office of Performance and Innovation
Terrence Jennings, Utility Policy Manager, Department of Public Works
Baltimore Resource Landscape Analysis Presentation: Recording Here
Mapping Open Data for Your Neighborhood: Recording Here
Grant Writing Workshop with Enoch Pratt Library: Recording Here
Vital Signs 21: State of Baltimore’s Neighborhoods: Recording Here
Baltimore Data Day In-Person Event:
Check-In and Coffee
Introduction to Baltimore Data Day
Welcome – Ralph Mueller, Provost, University of Baltimore
Data, Community and Trust – Amanda Phillips de Lucas, Ph.D., Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute (BNIA-JFI)
The Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC) is a network of researchers, community members, and institutions that aim to provide knowledge that informs equitable solutions to strengthen community-scale resilience. This panel will introduce members of the collaborative, discuss project goals, and detail what climate science informed by community-guided “potential equitable pathways” looks like in practice. Importantly, this panel will discuss how the group is building capacity across institutions, neighborhoods, and communities with different needs and priorities.
Moderator: Amanda Phillips de Lucas, BNIA-JFI
Benjamin Zaitchik, Ph.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Darryn Waugh, Ph.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Geenie Smith, MSPH, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Terris King, Liberty Grace Church
Dr. Doris Minor-Terrell, President, New Broadway East Community Association
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service and The SOS Fund work together to assist multigenerational families living together in homes across Baltimore city. If the original homeowners pass away without proper estate planning, the next generation may end up living in a house that does not “technically” belong to them. This lack of “clear title” prevents these homeowners from accessing tax credits, home repair programs and reduced utility rates, which are often critical to maintaining homeownership.
Moderator: Claudia Wilson Randall, Community Development Network of Maryland
John Kern, The SOS Fund
Arnell Garrett, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
Cheryl Knott, BNIA-JFI
Entrepreneurship, small businesses, and lending institutions are essential to economic prosperity and neighborhood health. This panel will discuss the landscape of these institutions in Baltimore. Topics discussed include Minority Depository Institutions, Main Street commercial revitalization, and trends in small businesses across Baltimore.
Moderator: Austin Merritt, PNC Bank
Mac McComas, Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative
Dan Khoshkepazi, Pigtown Main Street
Philip Allen Jr., PNC Bank
Moderator: Eli Pousson, Baltimore Department of Planning
Henry Waldron, Baltimore Department of Housing and Community Development
Nicholas O’Gara, Baltimore Planning Department
Jordan Brown, Baltimore Tree Trust
Baltimore’s local and regional journalists are at the forefront of robust reporting, pairing community stories with rigorous data analysis. In the panel, Rob Wells and Shreya Vuttaluru will present an app that allows wealth inequality and race in Baltimore census tracts from 2010 to 2020. Ryan Little will give an overview of how The Baltimore Banner uses data in their coverage. He will discuss projects big and small, from our biggest investigations to breaking news and how we deploy strategies to work quickly with complex and incomplete data.
Moderator: Bridget Blount, Baltimore’s Promise
Rob Wells, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland College Park
Shreya Vuttaluru, The Tampa Bay Times
Ryan Little, The Baltimore Banner
Participants will have 2-5 minutes to quickly share information about a project, dataset, research question, or organization. Sign up at the registration desk.
Released earlier this year, ReBUILD Metro’s “Whole Blocks, Whole City” report details solutions for addressing residential vacancy in Baltimore, through intentional site prioritization, community leadership, and investments. In this session, attendees will learn more about these solutions and strategies for supporting neighborhoods. The Maryland Center for Economic Policy will provide an overview of their recently released findings which describe the impacts of concentrated housing choice voucher utilization in the Baltimore metropolitan area. They will share recommendations for adopting Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) to alleviate rising housing costs in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
Moderator: Sarah Ficenec, Schaefer Center for Public Policy, University of Baltimore
Sean Closkey, ReBUILD Metro
Musaab Ibrahim, Maryland Center for Economic Policy
Cheryl Knott, BNIA-JFI
Business Intelligence tools (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik) are being used across various disciplines to translate complex data into easily understood data dashboards, interactive reports, and embedded visuals. This panel consists of public safety professionals utilizing Microsoft Power BI to build interactive data dashboards to enhance policy decisions and promote data transparency. The panel will also be available to discuss tips and tricks for building effective dashboards.
Moderator: Amanda Phillips de Lucas, Ph.D., BNIA-JFI
Angelina Guarino, Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services
Joseph Muhlhausen, Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement
Kyle Chandler, Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement
Jeffrey Zuback, Greater Baltimore Committee
While Baltimore City currently has over 18,000 vacant lots and 17,000 abandoned buildings, the City has developed a plan to ‘clean and green’ vacant lots in neighborhoods with large concentrations of vacancy. This provides us with a timely opportunity to explore the impact of vacant lot restoration on the health of adolescents living in disadvantaged neighborhoods, with findings that can be used to develop long-term strategies for improving adolescent health equity.
Moderator: Molly Finch, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Kristin Mmari, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dexter Locke, U.S. Forest Service
Katie Lautar, Baltimore Green Space
This panel will discuss the Democracy Hack-a-thon organized last year. In this hack-a-thon, graduate students from local schools built dashboards and tools to examine issues that drive voter turnout and registration. This will include a discussion of our experiences working with students, voter data and wider efforts to increase voter registration and turnout in Baltimore.
Moderator: Gretchen LeGrand, Code in the Schools
Phong Le, Vote Forward
Sam Novey, Students Learn, Students Vote Coalition
Dr. Bille Spann, League of Women Voters of Baltimore City
Nancy Lawler, League of Women Voters of Baltimore City
The State of the Baltimore Nonprofit Sector report was produced in 2022 by the T. Rowe Price organizational health assessments, funding audits, 990 analysis, and survey data. Key contributors of the report will talk through the findings and discuss actionable steps that the nonprofit sector (including funders) might take to make progress.
Sabrina Thornton, T. Rowe Price Foundation
In 2019, authors Sally Scott, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Seema Iyer, Jacob France Institute at the University of Baltimore analyzed homeownership trends in Baltimore by neighborhood and race to identify barriers and review incentives for homeownership. Now we are taking a new look at data to see what took place during the Covid-19 pandemic. We look forward to discussing homeownership with participants. We will discuss interventions that could sustain and increase the homeownership rate in Baltimore City.
Moderator: Claudia Wilson Randall, Community Development Network of Maryland
Cheryl Knott, BNIA-JFI
Sally Scott, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Laurie Benner, National Fair Housing Alliance
Aliyah Stewart, Neighborhood Housing Services
Researchers, practitioners, and informed citizens use publicly available to understand trends in transit and transportation data that impact their communities and region. Panelists will discuss research that puts these trends in context: the legacy of redlining on contemporary gaps in traffic safety, new tools and dashboards available through the Maryland Department of Transportation and the Maryland Department of State Police , and how the Central Maryland Transporation Alliance’s Transportation 101 program is training graduates to use data.
Moderator: Amanda Phillips de Lucas, BNIA-JFI
Glendedora Dolce, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Douglas Mowbray, Maryland Department of Transportation
Eric Norton, Central Maryland Transportation Alliance
Dr. Fabricant and her team of student researchers continue to conduct a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project that is presently investigating structural injustices in Curtis Bay, South Baltimore. Much of the data collection and analytic work is being conducted by Benjamin Franklin high-school youth alongside Towson University students. Why do communities experience environmental problems and hazards unevenly? Towson University students have assembled small research collectives and worked collaboratively with youth to document the multiple layers of industrial toxicity, and the cumulative effects upon residents’ health and well-being. The PAR project with undergraduates and high-school students feeds directly into her broader research agenda, as we are creatively mapping how environmental hazards lead to political action or inaction during specific historic moments.
Moderator: Logan Shertz, BNIA-JFI
Nicole Fabricant, Towson University
Matty Aubourg, Johns Hopkins Public Health Citizen Science Team
Shashawnda Campbell, South Baltimore Community Land Trust
While Baltimore is a City of over 250 neighborhoods, many of the challenges are the same. In this session, facilitators will lead attendees through a visioning exercise to reveal community challenges, gaps in resources, and opportunities to build solutions as a part of a collective, rather than a singular association. Attendees will learn about ongoing community capacity building efforts across the City, their outcomes, and how to access those opportunities. This session requires a device that can capture a QR code for participation.
Moderator: Ashley Edwards, BNIA-JFI
Kristina Williams, Charles Village Benefits District; Colmena Consulting
Marcus Pollock, Research Collaborative for the Prevention and Intervention of Violence, Inc.
Topic: Greening and Recreation
Topic: Neighborhood Retail, Commercial and Real Estate Data and Analysis
Topic: Demonstrations and Applications
Topic: Baltimore Data Week Unconference
Morning Sessions Online Registration
An update on the Vital Signs of Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. See which trends are continuing, and which changes are taking place in our communities.
Speakers:
COVID-19 altered almost every aspect of our lives in 2020 and illuminated longstanding racial and socioeconomic disparities of health. Come hear from leaders at the Baltimore City Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and No Boundaries Coalition to learn about the development of Baltimore’s COVID-19 data dashboard, key findings from the COVID-19 data, and how the data was used to advocate for community-led COVID-19 prevention efforts. Baltimore City COVID-19 Dashboard: https://coronavirus.baltimorecity.gov/
Moderator: Delegate Robbyn Lewis, 46th Legislative District
Speakers/Panelists:
The U.S Census Bureau’s publicly available data sets and tools, can assist organizations in the equitable distribution of resources, and identifying underserved communities. The Census Bureau collects comprehensive data from a multitude of sources about the nation’s economy and population, covering a range of topics, including demography, housing, socioeconomics, and businesses. Additionally, the Census Bureau data sets and tools can inform the frameworks for public dashboards to share progress and program metrics for assistance programs. This session will introduce users to the agency’s Data Equity tools, to include the Census Business Builder (CBB), the Opportunity Atlas, the Response Outreach Area Mapper (ROAM) and Community Resiliency Estimates.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this session, participants will
Workshop Lead: Nesreen Khashan, U.S. Census Bureau
This year has been presented huge challenges and opportunities alike for small businesses in Baltimore. Join this session to learn more about how entrepreneurial support and resources are distributed within the city and the state, how these resources affect our small businesses and their communities, and how they could even help yours!
Moderator: Kristina Williams, Charles Village Benefits District
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In this workshop, participants will learn about the Johns Hopkins University – Bloomberg School of Public Health-led project which seeks to address the impacts of vacant lot restoration on improving adolescent health disparities. Participants can follow along, or explore at their own pace, a working spatial database and map of greening lots across Baltimore City that was compiled by the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance from various environmental stewardship organizations. Participants will have the opportunity to provide feedback on greening lots in their own community to the research and database development teams.
Learning Objectives: Participants will learn about the ways in which the environment can impact health outcomes of residents and they will have a conceptualization of how and why robust datasets benefit researchers but also the community for understanding ways in which data can be used to improve quality of life.
Speakers/Panelists:
Community Groups: Baltimore Green Space, Parks and People
Tools/resources being presented: ArcGIS Online
A new report by the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth and Enterprise Community Partners finds that affordable housing stock in Maryland has not kept pace with the state’s housing needs, and that state and local leaders must accelerate their efforts to provide a range of rental and for-sale housing options for Maryland’s growing number of residents. We will start this panel with the findings of this report; speak with its author and contributors; and a local affordable housing developer in the Baltimore. We will then open up this discussion to the potential impact on Baltimore and our neighborhoods.
Moderator: Peter Dolkart, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Baltimore Branch
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Join Professor Colin Starger as he shows how BNIA’s Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) can be harnessed to visualize the hypersegregation Dr. Lawrence Brown has famously described as Baltimore’s “black butterfly.” Starger will demonstrate how BNIA APIs fit into a typical Jupyter Notebook/Python “stack” and how neighborhood data can be visualized and analyzed using Python code.
Learning Objectives:
Speakers/Panelists:
Tools/resources being presented: Jupyter Notebook (Python), Python libraries including GeoPandas/Pandas and MatPlotLib
The Affordable Care Act mandates that hospitals conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA) every three years in conjunction with community stakeholders to determine the demographics, health status, and health priorities of the communities they serve. Come hear from leaders at three hospital systems in Baltimore City to learn about this process, their findings, and how they are collaborating to better serve their communities.
Learning Objectives: Participants will learn what CHNA’s are, how they are conducted, and what data they provide that may be used to inform priorities for improving community health.
Moderator: Donna L. Jacobs, Esq. Senior Vice President, University of Maryland Medical System
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Baltimore City has a variety of tools and resources to help navigate and learn about our city’s data. Join us during this workshop to learn about the steps Baltimore is taking to improve data equity and accessibility and how to use tools like CitiStat, OpenBaltimore, CodeMap and more!
Emcee: Seema Iyer, BNIA-JFI
12:00-1:00 p.m. Program / Part I: Panel
Break (15 mins)
1:15-2:45 p.m. Program / Part II: Hands-On Workshops (15-20 Minutes each with Q&A)
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. The Fellows are using their data science training and skills to help advance social good in Baltimore.
Moderator: Seema D. Iyer, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance – Jacob France Institute
Speakers/Panelists:
Data plays an important role in how we analyze and improve our assessment of opportunities and diversion strategies for Baltimorean youth. Join this session to learn how our city and community organizations are reducing inequities for Baltimore youth by exposing them to opportunities for their future and how you can get involved!
Moderator: Philip Leaf, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Speakers/Panelists:
Link to Recording: https://youtu.be/g7bVmEbuw0E
An update on the Vital Signs of Baltimore’s Neighborhoods. See which trends are continuing, and which changes are taking place in our communities.
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkp8lZiMW-Q
Hosted in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Link to Recording: https://youtu.be/5xWqkmZgh80
Learn about how to use various dashboards helping us all keep track of COVID 19 and impacts on Baltimore
Link to Regcording: https://youtu.be/nrC04jug6Zw
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.
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io86ai32-Po
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!
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLLB7XZuDM
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.
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H45PMOJMYH8
Learn about data for communities to understand the current economy for jobs and small businesses during the pandemic
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guVFVGZJ42Q
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”.
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gM5-QZseKA
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.
Link to Recording: https://youtu.be/TBpGlLfSmcA
Learn how communities use data to address food security during the current pandemic and beyond
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
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDZurNZURpo
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.
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91er8YCD7k
Learn how can community stakeholders can use data to understand and assess the digital divide in Baltimore to advocate for change
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx4GQCd6em4
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.
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vK9PVB5vuo
Learn best practices for collaboratively collecting data within your community and how to use the Blueprint for Baltimore dataset to affect change in Baltimore.
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NehNzKq3-fw
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
Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR06M42Peek
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.
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
Link to recording: https://youtu.be/ivoAFTinbsg
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.
Learn how Census data is collected and how you can ensure a complete count during the 2020 enumeration.
Learn how to access neighborhood collections at the University of Baltimore and other area repositories for preserving and improving quality of life.
Identify ways that communities can use and engage with datasets to build cleaner, safer, and more-connected neighborhoods.
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.
Learn how to get (or create!) data about where and how Baltimoreans are getting online.
Learn how different kinds of agencies and groups access and responsibly interpret crime information to better understand and improve neighborhood safety.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Pre-Session on Creative Placemaking
Jason Schupbach, National Endowment for the Arts
Welcome – Video available! (Windows | Mac)
Seema Iyer, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance – Jacob France Institute
Mark Stern, Social Impact of the Arts Project, University of Pennsylvania
Finding Information about Tax Sale Foreclosures in your Neighborhood
Robin Jacobs, Community Law Center, Inc
Margaret Henn, Pro Bono Resource Center
The Value of Arts and Culture Data in the Community Development Mix
Lindsay Tucker So, Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy
Pamela Dunne, Maryland State Arts Council
Kalima Young, Baltimore Art + Justice
Public Health: From Awareness to Action
Jonathan Gross, Office of Youth Violence Prevention, Baltimore City Health Department
Kim Eisenreich, Family League
Joy Twesigye, West Baltimore Health Enterprise Zone
Reporting on Neighborhoods- Using Data to Find the Story Behind the Stories
Adam Marton, Baltimore Sun
Lawrence Lanahan, Freelance Reporter
Mapping Your Neighborhood
Jennifer Darragh & Bonnie Wittstadt, GIS and Data Services, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University
Amy Lee Walton, Mapbox
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Website and Data Resources
Nancy Jones, BNIA-JFI
Occupational Data for Workforce Programs
James Palma, Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
Claire Watson, Maryland New Directions
From Tech to Transformation
Technica.lly: The Data Behind Baltimore’s Crime Spike
Jim Garcia, Mayor’s Office of Information Technology
Ryan Smith, Johns Hopkins University
Identifying Opportunities for Creative Placemaking
Elizabeth Nash, The Reinvestment Fund
Mark Treskon, Urban Institute
Priya Bhayana, Bromo Arts & Entertainment District
Using Data to Keep Baltimore Safe
Emily Shaw, Sunlight Foundation
Denice Ross, Presidential Innovation Fellow, White House Police Data Initiative
Amanda Petteruti, Justice Policy Institute
Welcome
Welcome, Overview of Vital Signs 12, Seema Iyer, Associate Director, Jacob France Institute
Opening Remarks, Opportunities for Big Data, Smart Cities, and Urban Sustainability and Resilience, J. Morgan Grove, U.S. Forest Service
Affordable and Underutilized Housing
Michael K. Hollar, HUD, LIHTC Database
Sustainability
Charlie Murphy, TreeBaltimore
Ed Dohney, U.S. Geological Survey
Alice Volpitta, Blue Water Baltimore
Public Health and Education
Al Passarella & Neha Trivedi, Advocates for Children and Youth
Nicole Johnson, Senior Director, Elev8 Baltimore (a division of Humanim) & Leslie Gabay-Swanston, Research Analyst, Carson Research Consulting (Outside evaluator for Elev8)
Stacey Loyd, Doctoral Student in Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health
Public Safety
Shannon Cosgrove, Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice
Officer James Marsh, Baltimore City Police Department
Jonathan Gross, Office of Youth Violence Prevention, Baltimore City Health Department
Ernest K. Smith, McElderry Park Revitalization Coalition
Ignite Talks
Leslie Gabay-Swanston, Carson Research Consulting
Nesreen Khashan, U.S. Census Bureau
Reverse Research Day – Sustainability
Miriam Avins, Executive Director, Baltimore Green Space
Pre-Session on Big Data in Action
Sheilah Kast and Lawrence Lanahan, Maryland Morning WYPR, Lines Between Us
“The Future of Big Data” – Lee Rainie, Internet & American Life Project
Education – Kindergarten Readiness
Lawrence Reid, Baltimore City Public School System
Steve Rohde, Maryland Family Network – Supplementary City Data Profile
Water Quality
Guy Hager, Parks and People Foundation
Public Health/Food
Aruna Chandran, Baltimore City Health Department
Transportation
Michael Walk, Maryland Transit Administration
Jason Sartori, National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland
Kirin Smith, West Baltimore Strategic Alliance
Researching Grant Opportunities
Paul Chasen, Pratt Library
Arts & Culture
Kalima Young, Baltimore Art + Justice Project
Housing
Chad Tompkins, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Marceline White, Maryland Consumer Protection Coalition
Crime
Caroln Scheriff, Baltimore City Police Department
Brian Lawton, George Mason University
Early Childhood Education and Health
Linda Olson, Baltimore Education Research Consortium
Employment Development
Jennifer Vey, Brookings Institution
Public Health/Food
Meena Abrahams, Baltimore City Health Department
Amanda Behrens, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University
Ernest Smith, East Baltimore Community Health Initiative
Ignite Session
Beth Blauer, StateStat
Chris Whong, New York University
Tim Akers & Benjamin Hall, Morgan State University
Grant Writing
Eric Benner, Governor’s Grants office and Paul Chasen, Pratt Library
Communicating & Visualizing Data
Bryan O’Connor, Maryland Institute College of Art
Edwin Quiambo, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Healthy Housing
Brendon Brown, Green & Healthy Homes Initiative
Perspectives on Exploring Your Community Through Data
Kathryn Pettit, Co-director, National Neighborhoods Indicators Partnership/Senior Associate, Urban Institute
Florencia Gutierrez, Research Associate, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Results from the 2010 Census
Travis Pate, Demographer, Baltimore City Department of Planning
Jenaye M. Munford, U.S. Census Bureau
Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance Presentation, Matthew Kachura, BNIA-JFI
Education
Jonathan Hoffman, Director of Research Services, Baltimore City Public Schools
Tracy Rone, Research Associate, Morgan State University/BERC
Heidi Stevens, Coordinator, School Every Day!
Public Health
Ryan Petteway, Epidemiologist, Baltimore City Department of Health
Michael Scott, Equity Matters/Place Matters Initiative
Neighborhood Stabilization
Mary Warlow, Director of Programs, Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc.
Economic and Workforce Development
Donna Langley, Director, Baltimore Main Streets
Andrea Payne Roethke, Senior Policy Analyst, Job Opportunities Task Force
Grant Writing
Dan Owens, Manager, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Grants Collection
Sustainability
Miriam Avins, Founder, Baltimore Green Space
Public Safety
Tom Darling, Associate Professor, University of Baltimore School of Public and International Affairs
Kerry Hayes, Director, Baltimore City Police Department, Planning and Research