¶ Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University |
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| 777 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46202; Hodge Hall, Kelley School of Business, Bloomington www.ibrc.indiana.edu Contact: Carol Rogers @ rogersc@iu.edu Twitter: @Iuibrc |
University applied research center |
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| Role(s) | Provide metric-intensive, research-powered reports, analytics, and data through partnerships, collaborations and multiple websites, dashboards, and analytical tools to the people of Indiana. | |
| Mission | The IBRC provides innovative research-powered analysis and data to all Hoosiers seeking to understand their communities and economies, making it all available via its custom-built STATS platform while we strive to empower organizations to make informed decisions | |
| History | Established in 1925 as one of the first research centers at Indiana University, as part of the Kelley School of Business 1969 established a second office on the IUPUI campus 1975 began providing digital (dial-up) access to its database to Indiana’s Lt. Governor which became STATS Indiana 1995 developed web-based access to its reports and databases 2006 created the first Indiana state administrative record linkage system with CHE and DWD and support from Lilly Endowment, Lumina Foundation, and Joyce Foundation. 2006 began a (still) running partnership with U.S. Economic Development Administration. Released StatsAmerica for use by communities across the nation 2007 began to focus on metric-creation for understanding Innovation 2015 celebrated 90 years and 20 billion record strong database platform 2018 helped establish the Indiana Data Partnership with MPH and IU |
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| Org | 30+ person team of analysts, programmers, data scientists plus graduate assistants and post-docs. Leadership: Carol O. Rogers and Timothy F. Slaper, Co-directors |
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| Board | Formal board not required; however, IBRC sustains the following network of advisors: • AXIS • BioCrossroads • CHE • Central Indiana Corporate Partnership • DOE • DWD • Early Learning Indiana, Inc. • Economic Development Coalition • EDA • FSSA • Governor (office of) • IEDC • IN Economic Development Assoc. • IN Association of Realtors • Indy Partnership • ISDH • ISL • Lilly Endowment • Marion County Health Department • MPH • Radius Indiana • United Way of Central Indiana |
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| Finance | Supported by grants and contracts | |
| Data Source | • Wide and deep, with a combination of warehouses and databases combining to 40 billion records, including historical and current census data, economic measures, demographics, industry, real estate, property tax, local government finance, school finance, innovation metrics, occupation data, opportunity zones, patents, and government records. Deep data for Indiana while curating nationwide data. • Creators of Indiana’s State Population Projections (age, race, sex for all counties and state); State Labor Force Projections (working age projections for counties and Economic Growth Regions); quarterly Economic Forecasts for Indiana and Metro areas; The Innovation Index; Measures 4 Development. • Provides data to MPH Open data hub freely available to all via http://hub.mph.in.gov |
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| Data Access | • The IBRC has been providing open, digital, easy access to its data since the 1970s. • STATS Indiana (http://www.stats.indiana.edu/), known as Indiana’s data utility, has 200,000+ users and serves up key metrics via its city, town, county and regional profiles and interactive tools and visualizations to more than 200K users each year. • StatsAmerica (http://www.statsamerica.org/) grew out of a regional innovation project with Purdue in 2006 and has grown to include an array of measuring tools for counties, cities and economic development districts nationwide. • Indiana Indicators (http://indianaindicators.org/) gives hospitals, communities, and health departments the measures they need for community health assessments. • Hoosiers by the Numbers (http://www.hoosierdata.in.gov/), in partnership with DWD, focuses on workforce and the workforce economy in our counties and regions with specialized outputs, tools and visualizations. • Indiana Economic Digest (https://indianaeconomicdigest.com/) puts the news behind the numbers, a daily curation of news articles from 60+ newspapers in Indiana. • Child Care Data Center (http://datacenter.earlylearningin.org/) in partnership with Early Learning Indiana, provides critical information on childcare centers and providers throughout Indiana, with an emphasis on quality programs and closing the gap for child care deserts. • Customized databases, warehousing, data and spatial data management with geodatabases and geocoding services • Partnership agreements included access to raw data for specialized uses • APIs are embedded in multiple sites and dashboards |
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| Tech Capabilities | • Warehouse and database architecture; website development and hosting • Record linkage, data science, visualization • Custom tool builds to match the data and the project • Custom analysis by our economists and demographers, social scientists |
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| Selected Projects | • Metrics for economic and community development • Creation of unconventional metrics for development • Data mining for economic intelligence • Workforce and education alignment • Census 2020 liaison for Indiana |
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| Future Focus | Mining federal grants data for social networking analysis; measuring economic and social injury due to Covid-19 Charting pathways to economic resilience |
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| Talent Development | Empowerment training for our partners and clients to learn to use data science, networking analysis and query tools on their own Consultations on data use and interpretation |
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| Data Sharing Agreements | MPH, State Dept. of Health, Marion County Health Department, EmployIndy | |
| Programs/ Publications | • Economic Outlook for Indiana – 12 locations throughout Indiana, a panel of economists share their “next year” Insights with the business community • Indiana Business Review • IN Context • Census IN Indiana and serve as Governor’s Census Liaison • Federal-State Cooperative with Census Bureau • State Data Center Program |
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