Meet Explore Beta: Our Newest Feature & Esri Integrations

Urban planners navigate through a maze of community feedback, aiming to derive actionable insights that can support the development and design of their community. The existing software at their disposal often leads to a fragmented, time-consuming analysis that barely scratches the surface of understanding public comments from community feedback.

Enter the Explore Beta by co:census, a new feature that transforms comments in community narratives.

What Hurdles Do Urban Planners Encounter?

Urban planners are at the helm, orchestrating the development and design of communities. However, the journey from public comments to actionable insights takes time and effort. Hereโ€™s a glimpse into some daily hurdles:

  1. Scattered Feedback: Juggling feedback from multiple tools, is an ordeal that results in a fragmented view of community sentiment.

  2. Tedious Analysis: The manual sifting through volumes of data is a slow, taxing endeavor.

How Explore Beta Empowers Urban Planners to Understand Community Narratives

Custom Filters: Customizable filters within Explore Beta allow you to tailor your perspective based on questions, top trends, languages, or zip codes. This enables you to delve deeper into the intricacies of community feedback and attain comprehension of particular concerns or potential solutions.

  • Visual Insights: Utilizing word clouds, heat maps, and charts Explore Beta visually represents the narratives within the community. This simplifies and facilitates the identification of key insights.

What are the Benefits for Urban Planners?

Explore Beta is a tool that enables urban planners to make informed decisions, enhance community engagement, and increase their efficiency and effectiveness. By providing an understanding of community needs, facilitating two-way communication, and automating time-consuming tasks, Explore Beta empowers planners to create livable and fair communities that benefit everyone involved.

Explore Beta provides the following benefits for community engagement professionals:

  1. Simplified Workflow: By bringing together feedback from sources into one platform Explore Beta simplifies the process of analyzing data. This consolidation speeds up the transformation of data into insights giving urban planners more time to focus on planning and implementing initiatives that enhance the community. It also makes collaboration between stakeholders easier ensuring that everyone has access to the information. This improves communication and promotes a unified approach to urban planning.

  2. Informed Decision-Making: Explore Beta provides an understanding of community sentiment uncovering the opinions within the population. Planners can use this understanding to make informed decisions that align with the needs of the community resulting in greater satisfaction and support. Additionally, by identifying trends and measuring the impact of policies and programs, planners can effectively allocate resources and anticipate urban challenges. Our collection of case studies demonstrates how these insights have been successfully applied in various scenarios.

  3. Enhanced Community Engagement: The platform acts as a connection between planners and community members allowing for public opinion to be incorporated into the planning process. By facilitating this approach, Explore Beta not only encourages public participation but also fosters a sense of ownership among residents. This collective feeling of accountability fosters a culture of involvement, in matters resulting in communities that are better equipped to handle challenges and adapt. Moreover, Explore Beta promotes transparency which encourages a range of people to get involved, ensuring that all voices are heard and considered in the urban planning dialogue.

Conclusion

Explore Beta by co:census is a testament to the commitment towards empowering urban planners with the right tools to decode the community narrative efficiently. It's about making every voice count, ensuring no feedback is lost in translation. As urban planners embrace Explore Beta, the journey from community feedback to actionable insights is not just simplified, but enriched, making community-centric urban planning a reality. Ready to streamline your urban planning process?

Connect with us to see how Explore Beta can benefit your team.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about The Explore Beta

1. What is the primary purpose of Explore Beta?

Explore Beta is designed to simplify the analysis of community feedback for urban planners, offering a consolidated view of concerns and solutions, enhanced with visual insights.

2. How is Explore Beta different from traditional analysis tools?

Unlike traditional tools that offer fragmented feedback, Explore Beta provides a unified view with visual representations like word clouds, heat maps, and charts. Its dual sub-tabs (Community Concerns & Solutions) allow for a focused analysis.

3. Can I filter the data based on specific criteria in Explore Beta?

Yes, Explore Beta offers custom filters allowing users to tailor their view based on questions, top trends, languages, or zip codes.

4. What kind of visual insights does Explore Beta offer?

Explore Beta provides word clouds that highlight predominant themes, heat maps that indicate geographical concentrations, and charts that give a summarized view of concerns or solutions.

5. How does Explore Beta assist in community-centric planning?

By offering a clearer understanding of community sentiment, concerns, and solutions, the Explore Beta empowers urban planners to make decisions that resonate with community needs, fostering better engagement and trust.

6. Is the data analysis in real-time on Explore Beta?

While the analysis isn't real-time, the Explore Beta significantly speeds up the analysis process, offering insights faster than manual sifting and traditional methods.

7. Can I export the insights derived from Explore Beta?

As of November 2023, while Explore Beta is in its beta phase, the export functionality is not available. However, if this is a feature you require, please reach out to our support team, and they'll assist you further. At co:census, we deeply value our users' feedback, and if exporting insights from the Explore Beta becomes a common request, we're committed to making this option available to everyone in the future.

8. I'm new to co:census. How user-friendly is the Explore Beta?

Explore Beta is intuitively designed, ensuring even those new to co:census can navigate and analyze data with ease.

Schedule an intro call with our team and learn how co:census can save you team time.

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