Data Dive video tutorials
are here!

Just released! We've published three new brief video tutorials for Bexar Data Dive to our YouTube channel: My Community, Explore Data, and Tables & Downloads. Check out the tutorial playlist here.
Screenshot of Bexar Data Dive video tutorial playlist on YouTube

Did you hear?
Bexar Data Dive is live

Screenshot of Bexar Data Dive landing page
CI:Now has launched the beta version of a powerful new tool to help people find and use data about community conditions in Bexar County!

Called Bexar Data Dive and accessible online at dive.cinow.info, the platform:
  • Is built to be easy to use but very powerful
  • Pulls together local data on a wide range of issue areas, including health, demographic, civil and social, education, economic, housing, criminal justice, environmental, and transportation indicators
  • Allows the user to explore data (if available) by county, census tract, ZIP code, or a new census tract-based geography called Statistical Small Area (SSA); and to break out that data by race/ethnicity, age group, and sex
  • Makes it easy to compare different geographies and groups, such as race/ethnicity groups
One of just two awards made nationwide, in late 2021 CI:Now won a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health to help people in Bexar County access and use data to reduce health disparities and inequities. In addition to supporting development of the data platform itself, the grant also supports outreach, training, and technical assistance to help people understand and use the data.

Bexar Data Dive works best on a larger screen such as a desktop PC or laptop. A Spanish-language version of the site will be launched in winter 2022, and new feature development and data additions are ongoing.

Huge thanks to the many local residents who co-designed Bexar Data Dive with us through a User-Centered Design process, giving their time and thoughtful input in design focus groups and interviews, survey responses, and beta testing sessions.

Learn more...

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Do you know your SSA?

Screenshot of My Community tile in Bexar Data Dive with map zoomed in to Med Center area
You know your ZIP code to locate data about your neighborhood's area of the county, but do you know your Statistical Small Area (SSA)?

To find your SSA, click on My Community at dive.cinow.info, choose "SSA's" in the Community Types menu, zoom in on the map, and click your location to see your SSA and the data we have for it.

We need small-area data to understand geographic patterns in community conditions and inequities, but the available data often "falls apart" at the census tract level because of either wide margins of error in survey data or suppression for privacy in administrative data. ZIP codes are larger and the data holds up better, but they're designed for efficient mail delivery, not for disaggregating community data.

CI:Now has created SSAs, clusters of census tracts, to give a more meaningful "place" lens that has the size advantages of ZIP codes. Visit Bexar Data Dive's FAQ to learn more about the method we used to create them.

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