Friday InstantAtlas link of the day – John Patterson (Blackpool Council)'s new blog and IA User Conference 2012 (Rochdale)!

Friday has started out on an amazing high for me. Not only do we have sugar donuts (courtesy of our lovely Sales team) but we have this awesome unsolicited blog post from blogger John Patterson (Blackpool Council).

Did you present at the conference? If so, head over there quick!

Did you go to the conference? If so, you might be in one or two of his pictures.

Do you want to know what happened at the conference? What are you waiting for – go go go! (I’ll wait right here while you do.)

Now that you’ve read his post, did you wish you went the conference? If so, that makes two of us. That’s right, this friendly neighbourhood Support team member was supposed to present after @frenchpeter. And unfortunately, I was very ill that weekend and could not make it. I can only wonder what @Jonopatterson would have made of my presentation….

 

InstantAtlas Desktop 6.5.0 is released

What is new in InstantAtlas Desktop 6.5.0

We have created a short video overview covering all the latest features including:

The Double Base Layer Template
Pyramid Charts
Dot Plot
Statistics Component
WYSIWYG Designer

We have also provided a complete transcript of the video – please see below.

TRANSCRIPT FROM THE VIDEO OVERVIEW – by Andrea Lischewski – InstantAtlas Support

Welcome to an overview of the key new features of InstantAtlas Desktop version 6.5.0.

First of all, we have a new template, which is free for all who have a software license which covers the Double Map Time Series template. It is called Double Base Layer Template and – as the name suggests – it allows you to create a report where your map contains two base geographies which you can see at the same time. Like in the example I have here, it is very useful to display graduated points over shaded polygons. The shaded polygons show a categoric indicator with the risk level of a particular disease. At the same time you can see in the proportional point symbols the number of cases of this disease for each country where it occurred. Both base layers come with a table, a legend, a bar chart, a pie chart and time series chart. The bar chart and time series chart for the polygon layer are for this example not included. You can link the indicators for both layers by deleting the second Data button and Data Explorer as I did it here in this report. If I now change the data to another disease you can see that the data for the point layer also updates.

There are also several new charts available in the Single Map report. One of which is the Pyramid Chart. You can see it in this example report. It will commonly be used as a way to display population data split up into different age groups and genders. The data needs to be organised in two themes, the first one for Male and the second one for Female. The indicators represent the different age groups and you can have several time periods for each indicator. This Excel workbook is the one I used to create the data.xml file for this report. I included a time animation into the report, so when I click ‘Play’, I can see the development of the population over time for the selected area.

This report summarises the remaining new components. Here on the left I included the Statistics Component which calculates on the fly several statistical values such as the sum, mean, median, min and mix values and so on for the currently selected indicator. If I apply a filter, the values update to only include the areas which are included in the filter. You do not need to supply these values beforehand; the report calculates them automatically for you.

At the bottom of the report you can see the Dot Plot. This new chart shows the distribution of the indicator values around the mean. The grey shaded box shows the range of plus minus half the standard deviation, the whiskers end at the 1 standard deviation mark on each side. At the very left and right you see the dots of the minimum and maximum values. This chart has two modes. The current mode is the distribution mode. It can be changed to the interquartile mode where the grey box will represent the interquartile range, the vertical line in the box will be the median and the whiskers end at the 95^th percentile on either side.

If you add Google Maps as background layer to your report, you can now add a Google Search Box which allows the end user to search the map for e.g. postcodes, street names or other places of interest. The search results will always be limited to the area of your base geography.  So in this example, if I typed in Paris, I wouldn’t get any results since there is no Paris in Edinburgh. If I search, however, for Queen I get a whole list of places with the text ‘Queen’ in their name. I can now select the location I was looking for from the list. The map will centre to this location and a red marker will appear. This marker might be hidden behind the base geography so if I toggle that layer off I can see it.

Another new feature of version 6.5.0 is that it is now possible to define different table column labels for each indicator. If I change my data to indicator 2 you will see that the column headers change.  This is set up in the ‘Metadata’ worksheet of your Excel workbook or, – if you use Access – in the respective table.  The MetadataElement is called “alias_” and then either indicator if you wish to change the label of the indicator column or you can use “alias_” and then the name of the associate column that you wish to change the label for. In column D you can then enter your new labels.

In row 5 and 6 you can see two additional new MetadataElements similar to the ones use to change the labels. These start with the word “column_” and allow the administrator to add further column to the data table for a specific indicator. “column_indicator” adds the indicator column and “column_ associate name” adds an associate. In this example it is my associate ‘state’. In column D I entered an alias for both columns. To see the effect I change my data to Indicator 3. The Data Table contains the two additional columns only for this indicator.

All associate columns are from now on numeric by default since most people have numeric data as associates. If your associates are categoric you will need to set the type to be categoric in the ‘Metadata’ worksheet as I have done it here for my ‘state’ associate. New in 6.5.0 is that you can now use the star symbol as a wild card character. This works like a joker symbol so what I entered here in row 2 means that the associate column ‘state’ in all indicators of Theme 1 shall be set to type categoric. This saves me from needing to define this setting for each indicator separately.

I included Towns as a contextual point layer into this report. By default contextual point layers are displayed as little circles. If you don’t like that and you would prefer to see another symbol instead, you can now upload an image file into the Publisher which will be used instead of the circles. When I toggle the town layer on, the towns are displayed as red stars. When installing InstantAtlas it will save a collection of icons in different shapes and colours into your installation folder. You can either use one of these or create your own icons, preferably in PNG-format since this image format support transparency of the background.

Also new in this release is the what-you-see-is-what-you-get Designer – short WYSIWYG Designer. To show you, what that means, I will open the config.xml file of this report in the Designer. Instead of the Wireframe View the Designer opens by default in the Design View. You can see the look and feel of the report while you change positions, size and setting of components which makes designing of your report much more user-friendly.

Last but not least I would like to introduce to you the functionality of including GeoRSS feeds as contextual layers into a dynamic report. This is done in the Publisher where you can add a link to one or more GeoRSS Feeds. The locations of the GeoRSS items will be displayed as contextual points in your map. You can enable labels for this contextual layer to see the title of the GeoRSS items and if you enable tooltips, the content of the content, summary or description attribute will show when you mouse-over the points. You can even make them ‘sticky’ by clicking with your mouse when the tooltip appears. Now it would be possible for me to follow a hyperlink in the description if there was one.

I hope this little video makes you excited to try out all these new features for yourself. If you have any questions about the new 6.5.0 release, please don’t hesitate to contact the Geowise support team on support@geowise.co.uk

Community Resources Council, Topeka – Kansas

The Community Resources Council, Topeka is a non-profit community agency founded in 1925. It plays an active part in the growth of Topeka/Shawnee County. From publishing the Community Resources Directory, to working with coalitions to better the quality of life, to publishing & updating the Shawnee County Progress Report, CRC strives to bring government, social services, and businesses together. CRC’s mission is to connect the resources in the community through research, information, advocacy, and collaboration.

Information is therefore at the core of CRC’s activities and in 2009 according to CRC’s executive director Nancy Johnson, there was a growing need to keep up with developments in data presentation. Having seen how Jacksonville Community Council was using data presentation to make its community indicators available in an easy-to-digest format, she decided to try the same approach.

Getting started

Nancy made contact with InstantAtlas and her initial concerns about cost were laid to rest. She became convinced that it was the right data presentation tool for CRC. The board agreed and decided to buy InstantAtlas. Making the entire 2009 CRC Progress Report available online as an interactive report was the first project.

The purpose of The Progress Report is to provide useful information to gauge quality of life in Shawnee County. It provides information to businesses, governments and other organizations to assess the condition of the community. This information is intended to be used by anyone wanting to plan for the future.

The challenge for Nancy was that, as a relatively small organisation with just four members of staff, a great deal of work would be involved. It took longer than anticipated to set up the templates but now they have been created, loading additional data has become very straightforward. Nancy says that feedback from the team at the CRC has certainly been positive.

Read the full story here >>

Other stories that may interest you

Jacksonville Community Council Inc.

“InstantAtlas maps help our community users see where resources need to be targeted to help reduce inequalities”.
Interview with Ben Warner, Deputy Director – JCCI

Read the article

or Listen to Ben Warner’s Webinar with InstantAtlas - click here (streaming video)

Credit – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kansas_State_Capitol.jpg

How Data Packs can save local information systems managers time and money

Local information systems (also known as data observatories) can save you and your users significant amounts of money, not to mention the benefits of better intelligence for decision-making (and not just in your organisation - interviews with local information systems managers also highlight their role in “empowering the local community to challenge the local partners and council”).

But, many areas are still spending significant amounts on basics that can be carried out much more efficiently. Government-commissioned research published earlier this year identified average running costs for local information systems are £63,000 per year (ranging up to £160,000), 80% of which is staff time. And surveys of systems managers identified that ways to decrease costs mainly focused on decreasing the time taken to input data.

Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI), a spin-out research consultancy from the Social Disadvantage Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Develop the Data and Report Packs to help local information systems managers decrease development and running costs, while still ensuring that the systems meet the need for a central portal for information on the local area.  With 10 users of the Data and Report Packs, we have been taking a look at the value of our Data and Report Packs service.

Given the importance of spending every pound effectively, local systems managers will want to ensure that they are making the best of squeezed budgets in order to deliver the information and intelligence needed. The OCSI Data and Report Packs can save significant time and money in developing and maintaining local information systems.

What do the Packs provide?

The Packs have been developed to load straight into your local information system, providing data and outputs for all users and benefiting from the functionality of your system (we don’t run a separate, password-only, system restricted to a few users). To date, we’ve been working mainly with InstantAtlas Server systems, but the Packs can be loaded into any system able to read standard ‘open data’ formats.

Data Packs provide a very rich range of national and benchmark data for LAs, small areas and over time. We also provide data for any custom areas (eg, local priority neighbourhoods) as well as any higher level comparisons (eg, Metropolitans, Core cities etc). This information provides the essential basis for a range of work including Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Local Economic Assessments, Equality Duty and so on.

The Packs provide a wide range of visualisations when loaded into InstantAtlas, including profile reports, interactive desktops, Data Views. And as the Packs are loaded into your local information system, all data and outputs can be customised, combined with local data (supplied by local partners), and so on.

Visualizations

Standard template with Google Maps backgrounds

Radar Map template showing Indices of Deprivation 2007

Profiles

Bar Chart (Proportion of Children in OOW Families - Benefit Claims - 2001-2007)

Line chart unemployment jobs ratio unitary

For further information on the Data and Report Packs, including costs, business case analysis of the value of the Packs, and demonstration, please contact Tom Smith on 01273 201 345 or datapacks@ocsi.co.uk.

Editorial Source – [Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI), Accessed 21/10/20010 - Article - http://www.ocsi.co.uk/news/2010/10/20/how-data-packs-can-save-local-information-systems-managers-time-and-money/]

Find out more about InstantAtlas Server for Local Information Systems

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Background

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center based at the University of Washington. IHME aspires to make available to the world high-quality information on population health, its determinants, and the performance of health systems. It aims to achieve this directly, by catalyzing the work of others, and by training researchers as well as policymakers.

 

We spoke to Peter Speyer, Director of Data Development, to find out more about how IHME is using data presentation tools to explain global health trends and highlight areas for intervention.

He explains that IHME mostly uses existing data to develop estimates for health indicators that can be used by policymakers and those involved in the delivery of health services across the world to evaluate the effectiveness of health care systems. “We use a range of indicators and estimates that we believe will help policymakers to make better decisions,” he says.

Read the full article

New Place Survey Atlas published by Cambridgeshire County Council

In 2008 Cambridgeshire County Council wanted to find out what people thought of living in the local area and their views on the services provided by the council and other local organisations (such as district councils, the police and the primary care trust).

Throughout Autumn that year it carried out a survey – which also met the UK Government requirement for all local authorities in England and Wales to carry out ‘the Place Survey‘.

A questionnaire was sent out to a random sample from across the county and 5,925 responses were returned. The results helped identify which services citizens felt were doing well and those that needed improvement, as well as the priorities for the services that are being provided.

Hendrik Grothuis, Senior Research Officer says “The Cambridgeshire Atlas shows Place Survey data at a ward level across the county. It includes all 18 of the national indicators measured in the Place Survey. In addition to this two other domains are included that show levels of satisfaction with the council and whether the council provides value for money. All data shown in the atlas are percentages allowing for the figures to be easily compared to the county, regional and national rates. The atlas also displays Output Area Classification (OAC) in the county as contextual geographies that can be added to the map. OAC is a geodemographic tool offering socio-demographic data for local neighbourhoods.

 

Hendrik Grothuis Senior Research Officer, Cambridgeshire County Council

“The Cambridgeshire Atlas displays six of the seven OAC supergroups and the three groups from the Countryside supergroup. The Countryside group has been segmented because it covers such a large area of Cambridgeshire. Using the groups adds greater distinction to the atlas.” -

Relevant Links:

• Cambridgeshire County Council: The Place Survey
• The Place Survey Output Area Classification (OAC) Analysis Report
• Cambridgeshire Atlas – The Place Survey 2008

New IA Essentials Videos for InstantAtlas Server

NHS Halton and St Helens publish ward level health intelligence reports with InstantAtlas

Ward Benchmarking Atlas This Atlas shows Health Statistics for Halton and St Helens allowing benchmarking and compressions at Local Authority (LA) and Primary Care Trust (PCT) level. It also highlights where current performance is statistically higher or lower than the PCT.

NHS Halton and St Helens has produced several new InstantAtlas reports that reveal health needs at ward level (electoral ward) for two Local Authorities. This new resource will help health practitioners and commissioners to understand the health needs of their local populations. The reports are based on a number of different health statistics. These can be viewed by indicator, where each indicator can be examined to show geographical differences, and by ward, where a ward can be highlighted to view health statistics to discover if there are any statistical differences.

To access the Halton and St Helens Interactive Health Atlas click on a links below.

Single map health profile of Halton and St Helens

This Atlas shows Health Statistics at Ward Level for Halton and St Helens

Comparator Scatter Plot Interactive Atlas

Ward Level Health statistics at ward level allowing comparisons between two health indicators to explore possible relationships

If you would like to find out more about this project please contact Jonathan Olsen, Public Health Intelligence Analyst, NHS Halton and St Helens

Jonathan.olsen@hsthpct.nhs.uk

For more examples of Public Health reporting with InstantAtlas.

Click here

Short compilation on some of the New IA6 reports published by InstantAtlas customers

Here are just some of the latest IA6 reports published by InstantAtlas customers

View this document on Scribd

Welcome to this month’s edition of the InstantAtlas E-Bulletin

In this month’s edition we focus on UK Local Government and International Public Health with reports from Yorkshire Futures, Nottingham City Council, Louisiana Department of Health and LIGA in Germany.

1. CLIENT NEWS

• 1.1  Yorkshire Futures | Progress in the Region Live (PiRLive) New Updates
• 1.2 Perth and Kinross Council, UK | State of the Environment Reports
• 1.3 London Health Observatory | Sport and Activity Planning Tool
• 1.4 Nottingham City Councill | Nottingham Insight migration with InstantAtlas Server
• 1.5 Louisiana Department of Health, USA | New IA 6 Live reports
• 1.6 Landesinstitut für Gesundheit und Arbeit Nordrhein-Westfalen (LIGA), Germany | New IA 6 Reports

2. RESOURCES AND NEWS

• 2.1 Formation of LIS User Group announced | hosted by Wigan Borough Council
• 2.2  Jacksonville Community Council Inc. | Community Indicator Webinar
  
• 2.3 Where to see InstantAtlas in action | UK and International event schedule
• 2.4 US Community Health Case Study (PDF) | Health Planning Council of North East Florida [HPCNEF]
• 2.5 Twitter authors | Technology Editor, Charles Arthur | Tech for Transparency
• 2.6 Map and report data with InstantAtlas | FlowingData.com review\z
• 2.7 InstantAtlas Training Courses
• 2.8 New customers of InstantAtlas
  

Client News

1.1 Yorkshire Futures | PiRLive site update

PiRLive | SingleMap Report - Click to View

Yorkshire Futures (YF) is the Regional Intelligence Network for Yorkshire and Humber. Its role is to provide data, information and intelligence to support and inform regional strategy and policy. Yorkshire Futures recently updated its Progress in the Region Live (PiRLive) site with the latest regional data. Accompanying the update is a new improved look to PiRLive which matches the parent website. Yorkshire Futures worked with InstantAtlas to rebrand PiRLive in keeping with the look and feel of the new Yorkshire Futures website and have also upgraded to the latest version of InstantAtlas V6.3.

Amanda Crossfield, Data & Development Executive of YF says: “We have used InstantAtlas to create dynamic online maps known as Progress in the Region Live, which show how our region is performing against a suite of high level indicators including economic, environmental, educational and social data. You can see how Yorkshire and the Humber, its sub regions and its local authorities are doing compared to the regional and national average, and look at trends over time.”

With PiRLive you can download the datasets in Excel format, or print out the maps for use in your reports and presentations.

Progress in the Region Live can be used to:

• see how the region and local authorities are doing against key indicators
• look at trends over time
• compare two indicators against each other
• compare the region to the national average
• compare local authority to the regional, subregional and the national average
• annotate and print maps
• download the indicator data in Excel format

1.2 Perth and Kinross Council  | New State of the Environment InstantAtlas Reports

Perth and Kinross Council | State of the Environment

State of the Environment Mapping is an interactive map that allows you to see at a glance how Perth and Kinross areas (e.g. ward, intermediate geographies) are doing compared to other areas and the regional average.

It provides information about the Perth and Kinross environment and community, including information on how clean the air is, what areas are susceptible to flooding and how many citizens are able to easily catch a bus from home.

State of the Environment Mapping can be used to:

• see how areas and local authority are performing against key indicators
• compare areas to other areas and the regional average
• look at trends over time
• print or download graphs, tables and maps for own use
• download the indicator data in an Excel or PDF format

To launch State of the Environment Mapping please click here.

Perth & Kinross also provide a general help guide [PDF 207Kb] which can be downloaded to assist  you in navigating the mapping website.
Alternatively, you can download summaries for individual indicators by following the links.

1.3 London Health Observatory  | Sport and Activity Planning Tool

New online interactive tool using InstantAtlas Server for people involved in sport and activity to help them plan their marketing much more effectively without the need of a GIS specialist.

London Health Observatory | Sport and Activity Planning Tool

The Sport and Activity planning tool has been developed by the London Health Observatory (LHO) and Make Sport Fun for the Department of Health and NHS partners. It is based on Sport England’s proprietary Market Segmentation tool which helps organisations target new sport and physical activity opportunities in communities where they are needed most.

This planning tool allows you to quickly and easily map where people who are interested in playing different sports live in your borough. It also allows you to see where any of the 19 sporting segments live. This means that you can now plan and target marketing much more quickly, cheaply and easily.

The tool uses data from the multi-million pound Active People survey, Taking Part survey and Experian’s mosaic tool, and was built by the London Health Observatory, using the InstantAtlas Server product.

LHO | Introductory Tour - Video

The sport and activity planning tool is available to public sector and not-for-profit organisations in accordance with the raw data usage policy for Sport England’s Market Segmentation tool.

Currently access to the planning tool for general public use is password protected, however please click on the image to view a video overview of the tool.

1.4 Nottingham City Council  | Nottingham Insight, preparing for the future with its migration from InstantAtlas Desktop to Server

Nottingham Insight (previously known as NOMAD+) is a shared evidence base that provides access to data, information and intelligence about Nottingham and the surrounding area.

This partnership system aims to improve decision-making, support partnership working and secure a better future for its citizens.  However, the Nottingham team quickly realised it had to address some fundamental issues in the delivery of shared intelligence between partner organisations. The existing bespoke system required high maintenance and development time with technical staff needing to support all parts of process. Data loading was resource hungry and difficult to keep up-to-date and the user interface was deemed not intuitive – and click heavy.

Moving to InstantAtlas Server brought many advantages for the team, many of them already had  experience with the desktop product, which they liked.  InstantAtlas Server also allowed the team to utilise OCSI Data Packs, which provided them regular data refreshes plus Server provided access to Area Profiler Tools, Widgets and Web Services.

“We selected InstantAtlas Server for ease of creating neighbourhood maps and graphs, intuitive ease-of-use, speed of operation, affordability and expected ease of implementation and integration with the council’s ESRI tool-set.” Mick Dunn, Shared Intelligence Manager | Nottingham City Council

Nottingham Insight | shared evidence base that provides access to data, information and intelligence about Nottingham and the surrounding area

About Nottingham Insight

Hosted resources including data, analysis, mapping, reports, policy and other documents, aim to benefit local authorities, partner organisations and all people interested in the growth and development of Nottingham and the surrounding area.

Key facts and figures relating to Nottingham and its communities, can readily be utilised for:

• Service and project planning

• Informing policy formulation

• Providing an evidence base for strategic decisions

• Promoting and marketing services

• Informing commissioning decisions

• Providing accessible resources to organisations involved in tendering processes

• Providing at a glance summaries and profiles for the Nottingham area

• Helping audit inspectors to easily locate the information they require

1.5 Louisiana Department of Health, USA | New InstantAtlas 6 BRFSS reports published

Louisiana Dept of Health | BRFSS IA Reports

The Chronic Disease Prevention Control Unit in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has just published its latest 2006-08 behavioural risk factor survey results at parish level.  This report aggregates 3 years of data for each of 64 parishes on 14 key health indicators. Themes span physical and mental health status, chronic disease and healthcare.

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is one of 20 U.S. state departments of health that have included InstantAtlas in its online data dissemination strategy.

1.6 Landesinstitut für Gesundheit und Arbeit Nordrhein-Westfalen (LIGA), Germany | New InstantAtlas 6 district and town profiles covering North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)

The new reports cover 54 districts and towns (which are similar to English county boroughs) in NRW are compared using 16 indicators which focus on socio-demographic factors, health, and health behaviour.

To view examples of the indicator reports, please click on the following images (please note reports are in German only):

Comparison of district profiles

All 16 indicators are displayed and compared in a profile view. A bar chart shows for each indicator individually the value discrepancy between the chosen district and the federal average. Moreover, a second district can be added as a comparison variable. Maps, tables and an additional graph visualize at the same time the indicator value across all 54 districts.

Funnel Plot: infant mortality

This funnel plot is a useful way of putting apparent spatial patterns seen on a map into a more realistic perspective.  The graph shows the infant mortality rates in relation to the number of births in each district. Each dot represents a district. In statistical terms, all districts plotted between the green or blue lines  (respectively 95% and 99% confidence limits) should not be considered significantly different from the regional mean (red line), regardless of what the map suggests visually.  District variations from the average rate of infant deaths for the region may be purely accidental or unreliable due to the small number of cases. There is also a thematic map, a bar graph and a table. By using the mouse, districts can be chosen simultaneously in all four graphics.

Resources & News

2.1 LIS Usergroup for Northern England announced  – hosted by Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

Following on from the very successful LIS workshops hosted by InstantAtlas in February, delegates at the events have started to work together in organising thier first meeting to work on LIS projects and discuss what they want and have been able to do with the InstantAtlas products to aid LIS development

Jonathan Caunce, Intelligence Analyst of Wigan MBC (Hosts of the North LIS workshop) envisaged the group being a kind of ‘open forum‘ for discussion on the LIS agenda, but with a focus specifically around the InstantAtlas product that members are all currently using / looking to use. Jonathan comments “From the discussions at the recent workshop it appeared the consensus was that delegates wanted the group to be informal with a primary focus on problem solving rather than a high-level LIS agenda as a whole.”

Wigan MBC have proposed a first meeting date for 2pm on Tuesday 27 April in Wigan for an initial meeting of the InstantAtlas LIS User Group?

If you would like to attend or suggest particular LIS topics please contact Jonathan directly J.Caunce@wigan.gov.uk

2.1 Jacksonville Community Council Inc.  – Community Indicator Webinar, hosted by InstantAtlas

“Learn and discover how Jacksonville Community Council Inc. employed InstantAtlas to support their Community Snapshot Project and the development of community intelligence across the County.”

On April the 1st  Geowise hosted a live webcast presented by our guest speaker Ben Warner, Deputy Director of Jacksonville Community Council Inc.

Ben’s presentation showed how InstantAtlas has been employed within their organization and highlighted the benefits JCCI gained in using the application. Ben discussed the new Community Snapshot project and presented some indicator examples of their online InstantAtlas 6 reports for Jacksonville/Duval County.

Click here to view Webinar

2.2 Where to see InstantAtlas in action – upcoming events

1. North America – 44^th National Immunization Conference – 19^TH April, Hyatt Regency – Atlanta, Georgia
   Link to the site: http://conferences.taskforce.org/nic10/
2. NAACCR – Annual Conference 2010 –22nd – 24th June, Quebec, Canada
   “Renewed Collaboration: A Modern Paradigm for Cancer Surveillance”
   Link to the site: http://www.naaccr.org/index.asp?Col_SectionKey=10&Col_ContentID=396

2.3 US Community Health Case Study

The Health Planning Council of Northeast Florida (HPC) has been addressing the healthcare needs of Baker, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, St. Johns, and Volusia counties (Region 4) for more than 40 years under a variety of federal, state, and local health planning initiatives. It strives to meet Florida’s healthcare challenges through planning, research and evaluation initiatives that target local healthcare needs and affect health policy. Download PDF Case Study for more details

2.4 Recommended Twitter Authors

In this month’s edition we recommend two authors and organisations who we feel bring real value to the development of online data mapping and technology solutions.This is not a one way street by any means, if you follow any Twitter authors who you think would be of interest to others just let us know, we’ll be happy to add them in the next InstantAtlas bulletin.

• Charles Arthur | Technology Editor, Guardian UK | No. of followers 11,390 | Bio The Guardian’s Technology editor. Posting the news, chasing the news on Apple, Google etc. What you got? – Follow Charles

• TechForTransparency | No. of followers 461 | The Technology for Transparency Network, an initiative of @globalvoices to map transparency, accountability, and civic engagement projects worldwide. – Follow techtransparent

2.5 Map and report data with InstantAtlas – Review by FlowingData.com

You may already know that everyone is talking about transparency and  many organizations want to do more than just post a bunch of spreadsheets. They actually want to visualize it and share their data in a way that can be consumed by the general public. InstantAtlas aims to make that easy – without any code. – Read More

2.6 InstantAtlas classroom training courses

Why not take advantage of our special offer this spring and come along to one of our classroom training courses.
This offer applies to two of our courses based on classroom attendance at our Edinburgh office.

Choose from the following options:

InstantAtlas Desktop Foundation Course

This course is for users with no previous (or limited) experience of InstantAtlas Desktop Edition, or somebody who having used the product wishes to refresh their knowledge.

InstantAtlas Desktop Advanced Course

This course is for users who are already competent in the use of InstantAtlas and wish to address advanced features of the product. If you have taken the InstantAtlas Foundation Training Course you will have the knowledge required to attend this course.

Dates for the next Two Day Course

April – Wednesday 21st & Thursday 22nd

Location – GeoWise Edinburgh Office

Can’t make these dates? –

See our online Calendar for alternative dates and book today

2.7 New customers of InstantAtlas

UK Desktop clients

Locus GIS

Northampton Drug & Alcohol

Borough of Poole

Eastern Cancer Registry and Information Centre (ECRIC)

Thames Cancer Registry (TCR)

Northern and Yorkshire Cancer Registry and Information Service (NYCRIS)

National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN)

West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit (WMCIU)

Legal Services Commission

North West Cancer Intelligence Service (NWCIS)

Amber Valley Borough Council

Crofters Commission

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT

Bradford & Airdeale PCT

UK Server clients

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council

St. Helens Metropolitan Borough Council

South West Public Health Observatory

East Midlands Public Health Observatory

North East Public Health Observatory

North West Public Health Observatory

South East Public Health Observatory

West Midlands Public Health Observatory

London Health Observatory

Northamptonshire County Council

Suffolk County Council

Health Protection Agency South West

Staffordshire County Council

Wirral Primary Care Trust

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

Somerset County Council

Ireland

Energy Action

Australia

South East Sydney and Illawarra Health

Canada

Offord Centre for Child Studies (McMaster University)

Congo

World Health Organization – Regional Office for Africa

Germany

Bremer Institut für Präventionsforschung und Sozialmedizin (Bremen Cancer Registry)

Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Bayerns (KVB)

Landeshauptstadt München, Statistisches Amt

Stadt Frankfurt, Bürgeramt, Statistik und Wahlen

Switzerland

Justlife, Lausanne

USA

Alabama Department of Public Health

Altarum Institute

Arizona Department of Health Services

Center for Health Services Research and Development (East Carolina University)

Community Resources Council, Kansas

Hawaii State Department of Health

Health Planning Council of NE Florida

Illinois Criminal Justice Info Authority

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (University of Washington)

Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services

Pinellas County Government, et al., St Petersburg, Florida

Washington State Department of Health

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LIS Workshop 2010 – Review

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