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Hi, I am Alexandra.
This data gem will explore the new COVID-19
data hub and resource page developed by the Census Bureau.
I invited my colleague Andy Hait to show us how to use this powerful resource.
I hope you're ready to learn from Andy.
Hi, I'm Andy Hait,
an economist with the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Census Bureau provides an amazing wealth of data
that can help community leaders, business owners,
emergency managers, and others do their work.
But accessing these data can often be challenging for users unaware of what we offer.
As the COVID-19 pandemic was expanding,
census staff realized we had an important role to play
to help decision-makers understand the potential social
and economic impacts of the pandemic.
The data we provide can help guide their decisions,
so easy access to the information was needed.
Leveraging the established partnership we have with ESRI,
we've developed a portal to these data.
That's what I'll be showing you all today.
The COVID-19 hub
resides on the Census COVID resources page
that provides a link to the hub
as well as links to other important data tools and programs.
Clicking on the hub link
launches the COVID-19 hub.
The hub provides key information in seven major components.
At the very top of the page are four key stats about the U.S. population and number of businesses.
There are also links to flyer information on what's been added in the latest update
and what's coming soon and a feedback link.
Scrolling down,
we come to the impact report;
this interactive dashboard provides key demographic,
socio-economic, and business data at the state and county level.
New York is shown by default,
but the user can, of course,
change the state to the one that they care about.
Users can also choose a county in that state
doing so refreshes the dashboard.
The data are shown on two pages,
and each section of the report can be manipulated
and downloaded.
The 20 industries
shown here
provide an illustration of the variety of businesses potentially being impacted by COVID-19,
but we are also open to comments on these businesses and other
data variables shown, which may be incorporated in to future releases.
Below the impact report
is a new section that was added in release 1.3,
a separate dashboard
for the business formation statistics.
This weekly program provides information on how startups
and other business formations
have been impacted by the pandemic.
While the BFS data have been incorporated directly into the hub,
the data from three more COVID related programs are being added later.
Until then, links to these data are available under highlighted Census programs.
Scrolling down further,
we come to the demographic and economic analysis maps.
These eight maps provide access to key data shown in the report,
including the ability to drill down below the county level in some maps.
Like the report, users can incorporate this information in their own COVID platforms using
the share feature.
Providing access to the full breadth of the data to developers and GIS professionals is
a guiding principle of this site.
The highlighted data sets
and categorical data set search features below the map allow for this.
Clicking on one of the highlighted data sets
gives full access to the data layers
and other information in ARCGIS that GIS professionals need.
Clicking on one of the categorical data set search icons
not only gives access to the feature layer for each data variable
but also the full data
in Microsoft excel format.
Finally, scrolling down to the bottom of the page,
we see a short description of two of
the key Census programs shown in the hub
as well as links to other related data programs and tools
that users might want to explore.
I hope that this data gem was useful to help explain the key features of the COVID-19 hub.
As we begin the recovery from the pandemic,
we hope that you will use this resource to help guide your work
and that you provide feedback on what you like about
and what you'd like us to add to the hub.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Andy, for sharing such useful resource with us.
For more videos like this,
visit census.gov/academy and subscribe.
Thank you.
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