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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.

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….

Public Insight has recently updated its data analysis platform to include the addition of the new College Scorecard data provided by the U.S. Department of Education. With the addition of this data, users will be able to interconnect data from the College Scorecard database with information from sources such as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), U.S. Federal Student Aid, and many others. Users…

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.

Public Insight is pleased to announce the release of Scout, its advanced visualization application. Public Insight Scout gives subscribers the ability to dynamically explore public data using next generation touch-screen technologies and visualizations. Scout is initially available on Apple iPad® with browser support to be available shortly thereafter.