India Policy Insights: A geospatial and temporal data science and visualization platform and architecture
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.
Authors
- Rockli Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9864-3957)
- Devika Jain
- Gonzalo Rodríguez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4047-0530)
- Junyi Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2248-7238)
- S V Subramanian
- Joaquin Kachinovsky
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Korea University (KR)
- McCormick (United States) (US)
- Department of Public (IN)
- Korea University (JP)
- Evergreen Health Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SoftwareX
- Published
- 2025-04-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2025.102149
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.53
Funders
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation