MAPSCorps Opportunity Landscape Survey 2023

MAPSCorps Summer 2023 Neighborhood Business Survey

Introduction

The MAPSCorps Summer Program is a six-week initiative hosted by Northwestern University's Digital Youth Network (DYN). It partners with community-based organizations to allow high school and college students to understand communities, and research their historical context, public health threats, and disparities. The program also collects and analyzes community asset data and relationships to public health threats. Finally, the participants develop and present policy proposals responding to these public health threats. The program teaches STEM skills and focuses on career readiness skills such as problem-solving, conflict resolution, and professional communication.

Mapping Process

To enact our process, we train youth to collect, classify, analyze and visualize community asset data. We employ college age youth in the summer as near peer mentors and they train our high school youth to utilize our MapApp to code and classify data about their community’s assets using taxonomy. They also create and implement surveys. The taxonomy has codes that are organized into families of related categories, with two levels – type and subtype. There are a total of 16 Place Types in the MAPSCorps taxonomy. Place Types represent the primary category. Each Place Type contains several Subtypes, including at least one “other” category. These codes are for classifying types of PLACES, not for covering all programs or services related to an establishment.

Taxonomy

Here is a list of type and subtype categories to code establishments in this project. Each establishment is coded with a single Place Type and Place Subtype:

Dining – primarily sell or serve prepared food to the public

Retail – primarily sell things to the public

Trade services – primarily sell services

Personal services – primarily sell services to the public related to the body

Financial, Insurance, Real Estate, Legal and Professional Services

Health services – primarily provide health services or services directly related to health

Social service and political advocacy – primarily provide social support, organizing or charitable services to individuals or the community

Wholesale, storage and transit

Industrial – primarily manufacturing

Religious (except school or residence) – places devoted primarily to religious or spiritual pursuits

Childcare and school

Programmed residential – places designed for short-term living or special populations

Public services – primarily government or utility

Arts and Entertainment

Fitness

Other

Community Asset Map

Data visualization of Chicago's South and West Side neighborhoods, with markers indicating businesses surveyed by a MAPSCorps mapper. Hovering on a marker will display the metadata of the businesses' information collected.

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