Overview:
Iowa’s Extension and Outreach leadership identified the need for a statewide community data infrastructure to support precision funding and targeted education in response to COVID-19. This project utilized the Community Capitals Framework to identify, collect, and spatially map county-level indicators of human, financial, natural, and social assets related to upward economic mobility. Interactive data tools were designed to support Extension leadership in identifying and monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on rural community recovery. Dashboards are intended to be paired with CES administrative files, so leaders can visually identify opportunities to more effectively match resource/programming supports with community needs.
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Fellows:
Atefeh Rajabalizadeh
Graduate Student, Industrial Engineering, Iowa State University
Kishor Kumar Sridhar
Graduate Student, Information Systems, Iowa State University
Interns:
Jessie Bustin
Undergraduate Student, Data Science & Statistics, Iowa State University
Grant Durbahn
Recent Undergraduate/Incoming Graduate Student, Economics, Iowa State University
Matthew Voss
Recent Undergraduate/Upcoming Graduate Student, Statistics, Iowa State University
Vikram Magal
Undergraduate Student, Management of Information Systems & Business Analytics ,Iowa State University
Kathleen M Thompson
Recent Undergraduate/Upcoming Graduate Student, Sociology & Political Science, Iowa State University
Joel Von Behren
Undergraduate Student, Data Science, Iowa State University
Mentors:
Cassandra J. Dorius
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University
Todd Abraham
Assistant Director of Data & Analytics for the Iowa Integrated Data System, Iowa State University
Stakeholders:
Iowa’s Cooperative Extension and Outreach Regional Directors & University Leadership
Program Support:
Haley Jeppson
Graduate Student, Statistics, Iowa State University