Equitable Youth Opportunity Landscape Analysis in Chicago
Explore the equitable distribution of youth programs in Chicago across different age categories and geographic areas. Discover insights into program availability, common program types, accessibility indicators, and regional disparities to address youth needs effectively.
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MyCHIMyFuture Final Presentation Water Bears: Will Cichowski, Matthew Holleran-Meyer, Albert Wang
Outline 1. Data exploration and visualization 1. Interactive tool predicting future available programs 1. UI/UX recommendations for MCMF app
The Clients Needs Goal: Goal: Understand how equitable the youth opportunity landscape is across age category category, and geographic area geographic area. Do youth in different communities/regions have the same access to similar types of programs? age, Example questions: - How many Sports + Wellness Sports + Wellness programs are expected to be available for a 14 old in Englewood Englewood this October October? How many Computers Computers programs will we see for an 18 Gresham Gresham this July July? 14 year - 18 year old in Auburn Auburn
What type of programs are most common? - Half are for sports + wellness Relatively few STEM programs -
Initial Look - Mapping - Mapping the number of programs in each community area Outliers: - Irving Park (yellow) - Near West Side (middle square) - Morgan Park (bottom left) - Pullman (bottom right) Many regions in south side have few programs - -
What makes a program accessible/equitable? Distribution of accessibility indicators
How accessible are programs in Chicago? - Aggregated 5 program features: - Price - Food - Transportation - Scholarship - Paid program Lighter = more accessible Considering the south side is historically underserved, results are encouraging! Outliers: Irving Park, Morgan Park - - -
The Clients Needs Goal: Goal: Understand how equitable the youth opportunity landscape is across age category category, and geographic area geographic area. Do youth in different communities/regions have the same access to similar types of programs? age, Example questions: - How many Sports + Wellness Sports + Wellness programs are expected to be available for a 14 old in Englewood Englewood this October October? How many Computers Computers programs will we see for an 18 Gresham Gresham this July July? 14 year - 18 year old in Auburn Auburn
MCMF App - UI/UX Recommendations Goal: improve user experience with the app! 1. 2. Search by category and other filters together (like website) Color code resource vs. program vs. event
Improve Keyword Search - - Results are not relevant to the keyword Not an issue with the website - Different relevance ranker algo?
Thank you! We appreciate the opportunity to work with you and hope that our work was helpful for understanding the availability of youth programs in Chicago, and how MCMF can improve even more.
How to use the tool Simply use the dropdown menus and input boxes to filter the data however you like. When done, press the Enter button, and your results will display. These include: - The total number of programs that match the search criteria, the matches by year, a prediction for the number of program matches in a future year, and a line graph displaying this information. A table with the information of the first 10 programs that match the search criteria. - To perform another search, refresh the page or change the values to the new desired values and press Enter.
