HOW DOES BNIA-JFI TAKE ADDRESS LEVEL DATA AND AGGREGATE TO DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIES?
BNIA-JFI uses a process known as geocoding through the ESRI product ArcGis. Geocoding is the process of taking address data and projecting those addresses into a virtual map. When addresses are selected in ArcGis to geocode, they are assigned a location (latitude and longitude) based on the rate of matching. Once a data set has been geocoded, BNIA-JFI can then join the projected data to different geographic levels. Doing this allows analysis of totals and rates for indicators within the given geographic areas as well as the ability to visually represent the raw data set. All geocoding done by BNIA-JFI follows standards set by ESRI.
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