Welcome to the guide for the Innovation Team's GitHub. Here, we share our open-source projects, datasets, analytical tools, and methodologies. Our goal is to foster transparency, collaboration, and innovation in government.
This page will help you navigate our repositories and understand the resources available. Whether you're a developer, researcher, policymaker, or curious citizen, we hope you find something valuable.
Explore our analyses, research findings, and informative factsheets. These resources provide insights into various state initiatives, challenges, and opportunities: backed by data.
A novel AI-based approach to estimating how jobs in Maryland might be automated or augmented
An interactive factsheet on the impact of proposed federal cuts
A benchmark for natural language transcription based on the languages spoken in our state
Discover the tools, software, and methodologies we've developed or utilized in our projects. This includes code libraries, data visualization dashboards, and guides on our analytical approaches.
An interactive map of essential businesses in ENOUGH Act grantee communities, pulling together data from MDSE, FDIC, NCUA, and OSM.
Explore Map
A composite score comparing asset wealth across Maryland census tracts and racial/ethnic groups over time. The index highlights disparities and trends, with gap indicators showing differences between groups.
See the Index
Explore profiles of over 1,400 neighborhoods in Maryland. Learn more about what impacts economic opportunity and see street-level imagery across the state.
View Dashboard
Explore small business lending and financial institution access across Maryland. This dashboard visualizes Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) loan data, FDIC-insured bank branch locations, and NCUA credit union branches at the census tract level, helping identify gaps in access to capital for businesses and communities.
View Map
We are committed to rigorous and transparent analytical methods. Our approaches include:
Detailed documentation for specific project methodologies can be found within their respective GitHub repositories.
Access curated public datasets. Each dataset includes metadata, descriptions, and links to access the data files.
| Dataset Name | Description | Category | Last Updated | Data | Metadata | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correlates of Child Poverty | A census-tract level dataset of possible correlates of child poverty in Maryland. | Child Poverty | 2024-05-16 | Download CSV | View README | U.S. Census ACS 5-Year 2023, FFIEC 2024, Maryland Family Network 2025 |
| Small Business Loans for Maryland and Regional States | A census-tract level dataset of small business loan counts and dollars. | Access to Capital | 2025-03-06 | Download CSV | View README | FFIEC 2024 |
| FDIC-insured Bank Branch Locations for Maryland and Regional States | A geocoded dataset of FDIC-insured bank branches. | Access to Capital | 2025-03-12 | Download CSV | View README | FDIC SOD API 2025 |
| NCUA-insured Credit Union Branch Locations for Maryland and Regional States | A geocoded dataset of NCUA-insured credit union branches. | Access to Capital | 2025-03-12 | Download CSV | View README | NCUA Branch Locator 2025 |
| Maryland Occupations and Tasks Ranked by AI Capability | All occupations in Maryland, the daily tasks of those occupations, and an ordinal ranking of how capable AI is at those tasks | AI | 2025-04-02 | Download CSV | View README | BLS 2025 |
| Baltimore Redlining Map Shapefile | A digitized and georeferenced shapefile of the 1937 HOLC Redlining map of Baltimore | General | 2025-04-08 | Download ZIP | View README | HOLC 1937, Johns Hopkins Libraries 2025 |
| Maryland Neighborhood Names for Census Tracts | Human-readable names for Maryland U.S. Census tract GEOIDs | General | 2025-03-14 | Download CSV | View README | OpenStreetMap 2025 |
For a comprehensive list of all available datasets, please visit the Maryland Open Data Portal or browse our GitHub repositories.
