Jain Devika, Kachinovsky Joaquin, Rodriguez Gonzalo, Chen Junyi, Kim Rockli, Subramanian S V
Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Onetree, 425 Urban Street, Kirkland, WA 98033, USA.
SoftwareX. 2025 May;30:None. doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2025.102149.
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.
哈佛大学的地理洞察实验室开发了印度政策洞察(IPI),这是一个面向政策制定者的时空可视化平台。IPI提供了来自印度720个区、543个议会选区和60万个村庄的人口、健康和社会经济指标等122项指标的洞察。其应用包括母乳喂养宣传活动、政策制定和政府报告。它使用Docker完全部署在微软Azure上,确保了可扩展性和可重复性。基于React、.NET和PostGIS的开源堆栈构建,它处理、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。