What is Kaleidocade?

The Kaleidocade Indicators Framework (KIF) is a web-based geographic analysis system that enables any organization to present and visualize their data, aggregated at a series of geographic levels, through different facets such as maps, charts, tables, histograms, and reports. Kaleidocade’s easy-to-use web interface lets you or your constituents use the power of GIS to explain growth, identify trends, compare indicators, understand behaviors, and target new markets.

Kaleidocade can support hundreds indicators (200-1,000, depending on the complexity of the data). It is an extremely fast and robust system that offers a huge number of configuration options (over 160 discrete configuration parameters, plus skinning and styling). Switch on and off literally every single part of Kaleidocade to enable your organization or your constituents to use a system that best suits your needs.
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Through our KIF-powered web application, MetroPhilaMapper, we serve hundreds of indicators to our clients in a simple, intuitive, yet extremely powerful, tool. At our trainings, clients are thrilled at MetroPhilaMapper's capabilities and impressed with how quickly they can learn to use it.
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—Michelle Schmitt, Project Coordinator, Temple University, MPIP

Who Does Kaleidocade Serve?

  • Government agencies
  • Grant making organizations
  • Community/ Economic development organizations
  • Regional/ state/ national Indicators Alliances
  • Real estate developers
  • Academic researchers
  • Health care systems
  • Land use planning organizations
  • Businesses with broad geographic markets
  • School districts
  • Advocacy groups
  • Election and political campaigns
  • Social services providers

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Visualize and Analyze

Whether your objective is to provide internal staff with better analysis tools or to make your data available to the public, Kaleidocade can help you achieve both goals and enables you to: 

  • Quickly visualize and analyze large amounts of data, with particular attention to geographic and spatial relationships.
  • Identify patterns in your data.
  • Analyze and compare data at any scale from local to global.
  • Upload your own lists of addresses, automatically geocode them, display and save these as points on the map you are working on.
  • Incorporate a broad range of data resources including publicly available data from sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau or other governmental agencies to aid in drawing conclusions.
  • Produce detailed and visually compelling reports and maps for any location in your service area, in just a few clicks without acquiring or learning any specialized mapping, GIS, database, or statistical software.
  • Protect the privacy of your constituents by publishing data in an aggregated form.
  • Embed data and customized, data-driven maps into your website, and share thematic data from your Kaleidocade-powered database on any websites of your choice, thanks to the Kaleidocade API.

Kaleidocade Analysis Output

Kaleidocade supports the display of data variables via maps, charts, tables, statistical summaries, ranked lists, and reports. The core functionality is directed at supporting these capabilities in two main categories of analysis output to help you or your constituents see the forest and the trees in large amounts of data:

API — The Kaleidocade Web Services

Kaleidocade can be configured with a series of web services that enable a different way of interfacing with the data. Instead of analyzing data in the Kaleidocade web application, you can use the web service endpoints to generate content for any of the major analysis components (maps, tables, charts, etc).

This allows live Kaleidocade content to be embedded in external applications. For example, an article in a content management website focusing on a particular indicator could include a map showing a geographic perspective of the data. But rather than a static image, which could potentially become out of date, the content site would actually make a request to the Kaleidocade Web Services and the current map image would be returned.

And you don’t necessarily need to be a programmer to create the requests…authorized users can use the standard Kaleidocade web interface to generate web service XML with the click of a button.

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KIFlite: A Lighter Version of Kaleidocade. Same Engine, Same Database Structures, Streamlined.

Some datasets and use cases don't call for the full depth of features that Kaleidocade provides.   Sometimes it's better to let people get directly to your data through a streamlined interface and the fastest way to engage people with your data is through KIFlite.

KIFlite is an alternate user interface for Kaleidocade.  It contains the power of Kaleidocade's analysis engine and database structures, but presents maps, tables, and charts in a streamlined way to emphasize immediate impact over ongoing research.   KIFlite doesn't have the concept of user accounts or saved searches and focuses on one level of data aggregation.  This enables a streamlined interface for your visitors to explore your data.

Sharing data through an interactive kiosk and presenting data analysis online in a streamlined application are core uses of KIFlite.   KIFlite can be implemented as either a complementary user interface drawing data from a complete Kaleidocade installation or can be implemented without the full Kaleidocade application.
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