Azavea announces the public release of the first national-scale implementation of our Kaleidocade Indicators Framework (KIF): The Socioeconomic Mapping and Resource Topography (SMART) system, developed for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). Kaleidocade is a unique web-based software framework used for visualizing geographically aggregated data as maps, tables, charts, statistics, and trends, which fit perfectly with OJJDP’s requirements.

The OJJDP supports state and local juvenile justice systems and programs nationwide, and sponsors research and training related to juvenile justice issues. In order to more effectively match resources and needs, they sought to develop a system that would merge a wide range of data sources such as demographics, crime, risk factors, education, economics, and grant resources, to support the identification of emerging issues and assist decision makers in developing appropriate responses.

Azavea, under subcontract to Development Services Group, Inc. (DSG), implemented the Kaleidocade framework, which uses ESRI’s ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server and ArcWeb Services for mapping and geocoding functionality. OJJDP required a tight timeline and Phase I was finished and installed in 6 weeks. Phase II, which contains enhancements, is ongoing. SMART currently contains over 3.3 million rows of demographics, economic indicators, educational data, youth risk factors, and statistical indexes—more than 100 different indicators aggregated to states, counties, and census tracts throughout the entire United States. Kaleidocade brings all of this data to the people who need it, in a way they can easily understand, summarize, and analyze.

To view the SMART application, visit http://smart.gismapping.info. For more information on Kaleidocade, please visit www.azavea.com/products.aspx or contact info@azavea.com.