OnTheMap for Emergency Management Robert Pitts Geographer/Project Manager Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) Center for Economic Studies U.S. Census Bureau Jody Hoon-Star Geographer/Application Specialist Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) Center for Economic Studies U.S. Census Bureau 1
Agenda Need for Social & Econ Data During Emergencies Technical Challenge U.S. Census Bureau Solution Overview of Application Application Uses New Features Live Demo Questions & Answers 2
Where will disaster event occur? Who will be impacted? How do we respond? How much will it cost? How can we better prepare? 3
Need for Data Integration 4
Data Integration Challenge Real-time Weather & Disaster Data Census Demographic & Economic Data 5
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Center for Economic Studies Longitudinal Employer- Household Dynamics 7
LEHD Data Tools OnTheMap for Emergency Management OnTheMap QWI Explorer 8
The Solution- OnTheMap for Emergency Management Hurricanes, Floods, Winter Storms Disaster Areas Wildfires Demographic & Economic Data New Public Data Service for Emergency Preparedness & Response Comprehensive Reports Real-time Data Updates Easy-to-use & Interoperable Historical Event Archive Flexible Analyses & Viz 9
OnTheMap for Emergency Management Application & Data Architecture NWS Hurricanes Floods Census OnTheMap for Emergency Management DOI/ DOA Snowfall Event Reader (Updates Every 4 Hours) Event Archive & Cached Analyses Wildfires FEMA Disaster Areas Census 2010 ACS LODES Population Detailed Social Workforce 10
Weather & Hazard Event Data Hurricanes & Tropical Storms Flood Outlook Areas Snow & Freezing Rain Probability 11
Weather & Hazard Event Data Disaster Declaration Areas Wildfires 12
Census Data 2010 Decennial Counts American Community Survey (ACS) 2009-2013 5yr Workforce Home Origins Work Origins 13
Application Interface 14
Application Interface 15
Recent Improvements Updated Detailed Population Data Update of American Community Survey (ACS) to latest 5-year estimates (2010-2014) Updated Workforce Data Updated to LEHD Origin Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) 2014 Code Improvements & Bug Fixes Applied several updates to improve consistency and handling of events, clearer reporting, and fix small bugs. 16
OnTheMap for Emergency Management Uses Assessing Workforce Impacts Identify the number and location of affected workers Examine workforce demographics Identify affected Industries Visualize where affected workers live Assessing Population & Housing Impacts Identify the number and location of affected residents Examine population demographics of affected areas Identify vulnerable population groups Examine housing characteristics of affected areas Emergency Preparedness & Response Planning Where should response efforts concentrate? Are there special or vulnerable population segments? Uncover surrounding communities with secondary affects to workforce 17
Hurricane Sandy - October 25, 2012 18
Mills Canyon Fire- July 12, 2014 19
Recent Flooding 20
Recent Flooding 21
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Live Demo & Geography Discussion 26
ACS Data Basics Retrieve characteristics about an area Measure socioeconomic change Based on a small sample of households each month Replace detailed information from decennial long form (income, education, employment status, disability, etc.) 27
ACS Geography Larger geographies - think county vs block, more people (in theory), more samples, lower margin of error (MOE) Smaller geographies typically have larger MOEs Small events interact with small geographies 28
EM Geography For LODES or Decennial datasets, all blocks in an area can be aggregated because there is no MOE ACS data can be more complicated because better estimates come from larger areas EM aggregates these together automatically 29
Checking Geography and Data Use OnTheMap (onthemap.ces.census.gov) to examine the underlying geography of an event Understanding what s happening allows for better use of the data 30
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Thank You! Tool URL: http://onthemap.ces.census.gov/em.html Feedback: CES.OnTheMap.Feedback@census.gov 33