Using Data to Inform Strategic Priorities in Your Community

To expand opportunity and well-being for residents, local leaders need the right data and the skills to put the data into action. This session will help participants identify the most relevant data sources to understand their community’s upward mobility challenges …
SAVI Data Literacy – Visualizing Data with Charts

Charts are a powerful tool for analyzing and communicating information through tables, graphs or diagrams. This workshop provides you with the skills you need to get the most value from charts. Hands-on activities show you how to apply several types …
SAVI Data Literacy – Beyond the Numbers: The Power of Qualitative Data

Quantitative data, such as vital statistics, often play a critical role in community analysis projects. However, the richness of qualitative data such as interviews and historical documents can offer deeper insights into community challenges and opportunities. This workshop explores different …
SAVI Data Literacy – Avoiding Data Pitfalls

Data is most powerful when you understand its limits. This workshop equips participants with some of the fundamental skills necessary to critically analyze data and recognize the impact of various factors on their results.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This …
SAVI Data Literacy – SAVI Data, Tools, and Other Resources

SAVI offers a vast collection of health, public safety, education, and many other demographic characteristics about Indiana communities, with emphasis on central and southwest Indiana counties. This workshop explores the many powerful tools and datasets available in SAVI. It also …
SAVI Data Literacy Skills Training: Framing the Problem

This workshop offers simple techniques for designing meaningful questions that produce clear and actionable answers. It also provides strategies for engaging community stakeholders and other subject matter experts throughout the project lifecycle.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Anyone that needs to design …
SAVI Data Literacy Skills Training – Tell Stories with Data

This workshop teaches the next steps of persuasively communicating what you have learned after gaining initial insight from data. You will learn the skills to put your analysis in the context of a compelling narrative and to build your argument …
Using the Mobility Metrics: A Data-Driven Workshop for Local Leaders

Join us for a virtual workshop featuring experts from the Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Initiative. This session provides a deeper dive into the practical application of the Mobility Metrics and how they can be used to drive positive change within …
SAVI Super User Data Literacy Series (Part 3 of 5)

Participants will have the confidence to use SAVI and to provide limited technical assistance to others on the mechanics of SAVI, as well as the basics of data literacy, pitfalls, sense-making, storytelling, and informed decision-making.…
SAVI Super User Data Literacy Series (Part 4 of 5)

Participants will have the confidence to use SAVI and to provide limited technical assistance to others on the mechanics of SAVI, as well as the basics of data literacy, pitfalls, sense-making, storytelling, and informed decision-making.…