Fostering collaboration and data sharing is the impetus behind the new (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøDC), initiated and hosted by the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and in partnership with the Population Health Initiative, Urban@ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the Student Technology Fee program.
The collaborative seeks to broaden the potential impact of high-security confidential and proprietary datasets by making them more widely available to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø research community — without compromising their security and confidentiality. The datasets include information about individuals, households, communities and businesses culled from sources such as Gallup Micro-Level Polling Data, Medicare records, real estate transactions and large-scale federally funded surveys, such as the Adolescent Health Survey.
At the heart of the data collaborative is a modern computing cluster that provides access to restricted data in a secure and computationally sophisticated environment. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøDC’s technical team of faculty and research staff also offer high-level technical capabilities in data assembly, record linkage, geographic information systems, data analysis and program evaluation.