![]() ![]() This Global Goals Dashboard was created by picking from among the goals and targets those that are most meaningful in the US context and selecting reliable, robust, and readily available indicators for them. Doing so in the US requires adapting the global goals in terms of relevant geographic units of analysis (states, metro areas, or counties), population groups (major racial and ethnic groups, women and men, foreign- and US-born residents), and indicators. The true aim is meeting the goals everywhere and for everyone, not just in aggregate at the national level. The spirit behind the global goals is not just to meet the goals as measured by global or national averages, but rather to spur meaningful action in states and cities, counties and communities. The United States played a leading role in negotiating these goals as a result, they reflect American values and priorities. The SDGs offer a way to understand and address critical barriers to well-being, economic growth and prosperity, and environmental sustainability in the United States and to put American challenges and opportunities within a global context. The United Nations coordinated the inputs of 193 countries, including the United States, and thousands of civil society organizations to arrive at a set of seventeen goals and 169 targets to be achieved in all countries by 2030. The map is built on the D3 library, which effortlessly handles the zooming transitions and allowed the use of Albers projection, which is the most appropriate projection for choropleth maps of the US.The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the global blueprint for a just and sustainable future. However, by aggregating data from a number of sources over a reasonable period of time and working with a database that is easily updatable, the data (and therefore the map) should become increasingly more accurate and/or representative over time. This necessarily meant working with estimates. Therefore visual cues such as darker shading for more populous areas and animated graphics timed to correspond broadly with actual pace of change were used.ĭesigned to be used alongside SSRI’s full report, the map works with data based on a small subset of a population with no standardised data source. ![]() Information had to be presented in a way that was both aesthetically appealing and faithful to the data. ![]() Scale was very important to the design of this project. Information on Jewish institutions and synagogues is also provided and users can easily zoom back and forth between state and county views for more detailed demographics. Hovering over a location reveals population estimates across the top, and colored animated graphics (pie charts) in the right sidebar present location-linked statistics on age, education, and race as against the total US population. The data was used to create a file database (for easy implementation), which was optimized for loading speed and linked to in-house generated PUMAN geography that was stored as TopoJSON to maximize loading speed.Įmploying a choropleth state map that integrates seamlessly with The Steinhardt Social Research Institute (SSRI)/Brandeis University website branding, the design presents Jewish population data by state. It includes information for the self-identified Jewish population broken down by age, education and race – comparing these with statistics for the total US population by country, state, and county – as well as institutions and synagogues. The map displays these estimates across a low, mid and high range. This allows both for more accurate estimates as well as an opportunity to explore differences across data sets. There being no standard census-like data source on characteristics like religion and ethnicity, the map is based on The Steinhardt Social Research Institute’s estimates from six years (2006-2012) of combined survey data from numerous sources. It is hoped it will be used alongside SSRI’s report to assist local organizations in understanding the scale and demographics of the communities they serve, thereby helping to ensure a vibrant future for the North American Jewish population. The map is intended to track population trends but it also offers potential utility as a benchmarking tool that could improve effectiveness in implementing and appraising outreach/engagement initiatives. Applying cutting-edge research methods to inform and influence religo-ethnic policymaking, the SSRI hopes that this interactive map will generate greater interest in its work while increasing its reach and use. Commissioned by The Steinhardt Social Research Institute (SSRI) at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies (CMJS) at Brandeis University, the map uses the synthesized results of targeted surveys to provide high quality, unbiased data about the distribution of the contemporary Jewish population in the US. This project seeks to provide answers to social research questions about the Jewish population in the United States. ![]()
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