India Policy Insights: A geospatial and temporal data science and visualization platform and architecture

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

SoftwareX Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI:10.1016/j.softx.2025.102149

Devika Jain , Joaquin Kachinovsky , Gonzalo Rodriguez , Junyi Chen , Rockli Kim , S V Subramanian

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Abstract

The Geographic Insights Lab at Harvard University developed India Policy Insights (IPI), a spatio-temporal visualization platform for policymakers. IPI provides insights from 122 indicators across population, health, and socioeconomic metrics spanning 720 districts, 543 parliamentary constituencies, and 600,000 villages in India. Its applications include breastfeeding campaigns,policy development, and government reporting. It is fully deployed on Microsoft Azure using Docker, which ensures scalability and reproducibility. Built on an open-source stack with React,.NET, and PostGIS, it processes, stores, visualizes, and queries geospatial big data. This paper highlights IPI's architecture and methodologies for tackling public policy challenges.

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印度政策洞察：地理空间和时间数据科学与可视化平台和架构

哈佛大学地理洞察实验室为政策制定者开发了时空可视化平台 "印度政策洞察"（IPI）。IPI 从印度 720 个县、543 个议会选区和 60 万个村庄的 122 个指标中提供了人口、健康和社会经济指标方面的见解。其应用包括母乳喂养运动、政策制定和政府报告。它使用 Docker 完全部署在 Microsoft Azure 上，从而确保了可扩展性和可重复性。它基于 React、.NET 和 PostGIS 的开源堆栈构建，可处理、存储、可视化和查询地理空间大数据。本文重点介绍了 IPI 应对公共政策挑战的架构和方法。

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SoftwareX COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING-

CiteScore

5.50

自引率

2.90%

发文量

184

审稿时长

9 weeks

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