About Cottage Data2Go
Cottage Data2Go is a free, interactive online mapping and data tool created by Cottage Health and Measure of America, a nonpartisan research and advocacy initiative of the Social Science Research Council.
Cottage Data2Go brings together federal, state, county, and community data on a broad range of social and health factors that reflect the well-being of Santa Barbara County residents. Data displayed within Cottage Data2Go helps users visualize the link between geographies and the specific needs of varying demographics, allowing users to see and interact with correlations across multiple variables. Nearly 200 indicators from diverse sources are included for the county’s 87 census tracts and 26 cities and census designated places.
Created to provide reliable, up-to-date information on community assets and challenges, Cottage Data2Go is designed as a resource to aid community members, leaders, businesses, government agencies, and community-based organizations in crafting effective solutions, developing policies and services, and advocating for change. In community work, data drives decision making, and Cottage Data2Go brings data together to help showcase successes and bring light to opportunities for promoting equity, especially among the most vulnerable in our community.
Measure of America provides annual data updates (as available) and adds new indicators based on user requests. For data inquiries, please e-mail contact@measureofamerica.org.
For additional information, see our Frequently Asked Questions.
About Cottage Health
Cottage Health was established more than 125 years ago when a group of women in Santa Barbara opened a nonprofit hospital dedicated to providing care to all, regardless of ability to pay. Today, Cottage Health includes Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, with its affiliated Cottage Children’s Medical Center and Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital, and Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital.
Cottage Health’s specialties include the Cottage Children’s Medical Center, Level 2 Trauma Center, Neuroscience Institute, Heart & Vascular Center, Center for Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation Hospital. Its medical staff is comprised of more than 700 physicians, many with subspecialties typically found only at university medical centers. In 2016, the Cottage Health hospitals in Goleta, Santa Barbara, and Santa Ynez Valley provided inpatient care for 19,000 people, treated 78,000 patients through 24-hour emergency departments, and helped deliver 2,500 newborns.
As a leader in providing advanced medical care to the Central Coast region, Cottage Health’s mission is to provide superior health care for and improve the health of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
About Measure of America
Measure of America (MOA) is a nonpartisan research and advocacy initiative of the Social Science Research Council. MOA provides easy-to-use, yet methodologically sound tools that measure what matters for human well-being, freedom, and opportunity. Through reports and online tools like Cottage Data2Go, Measure of America works with partners to breathe life into numbers, using data to create compelling narratives that foster understanding of inequalities and build support for people-centered policies. This work is grounded in a strong conceptual framework, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach.
Suggested attribution:
Measure of America, Social Science Research Council. 2017. Cottage Data2Go. http://www.cottagedata2go.org.
Data2Go Team
Cottage Data2Go is a free, easy-to-use online mapping and data tool created by Cottage Health and Measure of America of the Social Science Research Council. It brings together federal, state, county, and community data on a broad range of issues critical to the well-being of all Santa Barbara County.
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