Media and Presentations

Media coverage

The Social Impact Data Commons was featured in a presentation to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Information Technology Committee on 14 June 2022. The topic of discussion was Digital Equity/Broadband in the county.

Conference presentations

“The Social Impact Data Commons: A New Sustainable Architecture and Stakeholder Approach to Collect, Create, Validate and Distribute Sub-County-Level Datasets and Metrics to Support Regional Data-Driven Decision-Making”, presented at the 2022 Association of Public Data Users (APDU) conference by Kathryn Linehan

“Data Re-Use in Action: Social Impact Data Commons”, presented at the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Statistics Network (MASN) by Aaron Schroeder.

“Lessons Learned in Coordinating Large-Scale Data Science Initiatives”, presented at the 2022 Joint Statistical Meetings by Joel Thurston

“The Virginia’s New Rural Health Data Commons, Featuring New Health-related Datasets and New Metrics for Visualizing Health Services Access”, presented at the 2022 National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) annual conference by Aaron Schroeder and Cesar Montalvo

“Building the Social Impact Data Commons Data Discovery and Acquisition Lessons Learned”, presented at the 2022 Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research and Policy Conference by Joanna Schroeder

“Virginia’s New Rural Health Data Commons: Informing Health Policy through Featuring Health Related Metrics for Visualizing Health Services Access”, presented at the 2023 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) by Cesar Montalvo and Joanna Schroeder