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🗺️ MapAgora Dashboard

An interactive visualization of civic opportunities across U.S. counties, built from the MapAgora datasets developed at the SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University.

Developed and maintained by:
Jae Yeon Kim & Milan de Vries

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🚀 Overview

This dashboard provides an interactive interface for exploring the county-level landscape of civic opportunity in the United States. It draws from a larger project, Mapping the Modern Agora (MMA), which combines IRS administrative records and scraped web data to construct a scalable measure of civic infrastructure.

The dashboard includes:

• A leaflet-based map of civic opportunity indicators
• An interactive data table for filtering and comparing counties
• A community uses page where users can submit and browse how others are using the data

📍 This version only includes county-level aggregates. For ZIP code–level data and the full organization-level dataset, see the links below.

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🧱 Project Structure

index.qmd

Landing page. Includes project background, dataset construction, and links to visualizations and data.

map.qmd

Interactive county-level map using leaflet. Visualizes civic opportunity index and organization types.

table.qmd

Interactive data table using DT. Enables filtering, sorting, and exporting of civic opportunity indicators.

community_uses.qmd

Community submissions page. Users can submit how they've used the data via a form; approved submissions are displayed in a table.

_quarto.yml

Site configuration and navigation setup for the Quarto project.

raw_data/

Raw inputs for map and table generation:

• cnty_counts_cov.csv: County-level civic indicators
• cnty_civic_org_type.csv: Organizational type frequencies
• counties.rds / states.rds: Shapefiles for geographic visualization

deploy_dashboard.sh

Bash script to render the site and deploy to GitHub Pages (docs/ folder).

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🌐 Access the Dashboard

• 🗺️ Interactive Map
• 📋 Interactive Table
• 🤝 Community Uses

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📂 Data Access

This dashboard uses only a subset of the full MapAgora data:

Dataset	Description
Dataset 1	1.3M+ de-identified nonprofit organizations (organization-level) ❌ not included here
Dataset 2	ZIP and county-level civic opportunity counts ✅ (only county shown)
Dataset 3	ZIP and county-level organizational type breakdowns ✅ (only county shown)

• 🔗 GitHub Repository

• 🗃️ Harvard Dataverse

• 📄 Data paper:
  "The Mapping the Modern Agora Data Paper: MapAgora, Civic Opportunity Datasets for the Study of American Local Politics and Public Policy" — Nature: Scientific Data, 2025
  (Jae Yeon Kim, Milan de Vries, & Hahrie Han)
  Replication • Supplement

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📚 References

• Concept paper:
  "Civil Society, Realized" — The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2022
  (Hahrie Han & Jae Yeon Kim)

• Empirical paper:
  "The Unequal Landscape of Civic Opportunity in America" — Nature Human Behaviour, 2023
  (Milan de Vries, Jae Yeon Kim, & Hahrie Han)
  Replication • Supplement

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💡 Contributing & Feedback

This is a beta release. We welcome suggestions and contributions.

➡️ Contact: Jae Yeon Kim