Azavea offers a range of political advocacy and election tools and services to put the power of GIS and mapping into the hands of voters, grassroots campaign workers, candidates, and advocacy organizations.
Political Mapping
Campaign Walking and GOTV
Approached by candidates in races ranging from city council to state senate, Azavea has drawn on street network, parcel boundary, and state voter file data to generate campaign walking and GOTV maps that pinpoint the location of likely and supervoters in each precinct.
Demographic Profiles and Outcome Prevision
Azavea knows how to harness the power of GIS to automate the process of rapidly generating hundreds of demographic maps to equip candidates with information they need to determine where to best allocate resources and make time-critical decisions under the pressures of a campaign cycle.
Campaign Financing Analysis
Utilizing a combination of ESRI's ArcMap ModelBuilder technology and custom software, Azavea is able to process a vast quantity of data to rapidly generate clear, compelling maps of contribution information.
MAPLight.org has used a series of more than 400 such maps, visualizing the information about in- and out-of-district campaign contributions to each member of the U.S. House of Representatives as part of their 'Remote Control' report.
Voters and Donors Analysis and Data Mining
Sometimes campaign strategists are faced with targeting decisions that demand more sophisticated analysis to generate profiles of potential donors and voters. Valuable data is gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau, consumer research firms, state elections offices, political parties and individual campaigns, but it is often aggregated at different spatial scales, making it difficult to integrate.
Gerrymandering Analysis and Redistricting Tools
* Redistricting the Nation website
* Redistricting the Philadelphia Region website.
* Redrawing the Map on Redistricting 2010: The Philadelphia Study
* Redrawing the Map on Redistricting 2010: The National Study
* Gerrymandering Index White Paper (2006)
Web-based Software Development
Planning and Prioritization Tools
Azavea's extensive experience with web-based application development enables us to put analytical capabilities directly into the hands of clients. We've used our DecisionTree® web-based geographic planning and prioritization tool to build a prototype Elections and Advocacy application that enables campaigns to prioritize canvassing and GOTV efforts based on a selection of over 30 weighted electoral indicators including voting history, demographic data, and civic participation.
Custom Software Development
For the Committee of Seventy, one of the oldest nonpartisan political watchdog groups in the U.S., Azavea used a mix of open source software tools to build a custom election incident-tracking application. Real-time results, color-coded by incident type, are displayed on screens at the central command center, where organizers can overlay the incident point data with political boundaries such as state senate or house districts to evaluate whether problematic patterns are emerging.
About Azavea's Cicero Web Services API
Cicero is a legislative district matching and elected official lookup web API that matches citizens with their local, state, and national representatives by tapping into a massive database of voting district maps and information about politicians, legislative bodies, and election events. The Cicero API powers many features of the compactness scores lookup tool.
Cicero contains comprehensive sets of data including city council districts for more than 60 U.S. cities, and district lookup and legislator contact data for all U.S. state and federal legislative districts, as well as legislative data for Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Cicero also contains more than 14,700 non-legislative districts such as Police Districts, watersheds and School Districts.