
116 Manzhu Yu, Pinde Fu, Nanyin Zhou, and Jizhe Xia
to better understand the overall community and make better policy
decisions. One distinguishing feature is that Community Analyst uses
up-to-date data, so that it can get information immediately for the
exact area that users need—including standard geographies (down
to the Census block group level), hand-drawn shapes, rings, or drive
times around a location.
Community Analyst has proven efcient and signicantly helpful.
For example, the Epidemiology and Program Evaluation Branch of
the Riverside County Department of Public Health made maps for
each related staff member in the department ...