My name is Michael Diaz, and I am an AmeriCorps VISTA member at SLATE-Z. Over the past year, I have served as the SLATE_Z Data & Evaluation Associate. Along with being the Data & Evaluation Associate, I worked as the Transit Workgroup coordinator for SLATE-Z's Transit Workgroup. During my tenure, I worked with USC’s Neighborhood Data for Social Change alongside SLATE-Z's Director of Policy and Partnerships, Sulma Hernández, to coordinate meetings and help gather public data for the USC team to analyze and build out visualizations.
On April 30th, 2023, SLATE-Z launched a community data dashboard that captures metrics for our five Levers of Change: Education, Jobs, Public Safety, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Transit. Data is a valuable tool to track the progress of projects, programs, and other work. The SLATE-Z Data Dashboard is a community resource that tracks the efforts of the South Los Angeles Promise Zone through different Data Visualizations and help reflect its impact in the region. For example, the Transit Workgroup page is tracking traffic collision rates in the South LA Promise Zone and the City of LA in the form of a line chart which showcases the number of traffic collisions involving pedestrians or cyclist per 10,000 residents in the South LA Promise Zone and compared citywide from 2010-2020. The SLATE-Z Data Dashboard exists to illustrate the broader story of collective impact in the South Los Angeles Promise Zone.
Being able to tell SLATE-Z's story through a data-driven approach allows us to share the work our Partners are doing to help move South LA residents to economic opportunity. The SLATE-Z Data Dashboard can be accessed by visiting slatezdata.org.
