Public Insight to add U.S. Federal Student Aid to Platform

Public Insight, whose software platform analyzes data about people, places, and providers released a major platform update that includes a significant overhaul of its condition based filtering engine (Filter Builder). The new capabilities allow users to apply metric-based conditions to dynamically filter the universe of public entities.

With the addition of statistical areas, users will now be able to analyze and compare demographic, social, economic, job and housing information more effectively and efficiently than using source data sites individually.

In the most recent data update to the Public Insight platform, Public Insight’s K-12 school district metrics have been updated to include the national “Common Core of Data” (CCD) data set. This update includes multiple new topics and series for enrollment and staffing from the CCD.

The August 2016 Public Insight release provides extensive improvements in search capabilities, data source audit trails, and multi-level database extracts. The text searching capability allows you to type any search term and Public Insight will return a list of data sources and path to the metrics containing the search term….