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Welcome to the Help Center!

Facebook's Data for Good program includes tools built from de-identified data on our platform, as well as tools that we develop using satellite imagery and other publicly available sources. When data is shared responsibly with the communities that need it, it can improve wellbeing and save lives. You can find more about the Facebook Data for Good Program at our website here.

There are two primary tools on GeoInsights within the Data for Good program:

• Disaster Maps
• Disease Prevention Maps

Facebook Disaster Maps provide information about where populations are located, how they are moving, and where they are checking in safe during a natural disaster. All data is de-identified and aggregated to a 360 square meter tile or local administrative boundaries (e.g. census boundaries).

Facebook Disease Prevention Maps are designed to help public health organizations close gaps in understanding on where people live, how people are moving, and what their internet connectivity is to improve the effectiveness of health campaigns. These datasets, when combined with disease burden and epidemiological information from health systems, assist health teams in reaching vulnerable communities more effectively with health commodities and messages, and help researchers to better model the pathways of disease outbreaks that are spread by human-to-human contact.

This Help Page describes disaster maps datasets, the disease prevention datasets, how insights are calculated, and the GeoInsights tool. GeoInsights is an interactive visualization and analytics tool for geospatial data.

The Help Page includes the following sections:

• Disaster Maps

  • Getting Started - Basic information about disaster maps and why are they important
  • Disaster Map Dataset Types - Overview of the six dataset types generated for disasters
  • Disaster Map Metrics - Detailed information about the metrics available for each of the six disaster map types
  • FAQs - Frequently asked questions about disaster maps
  • Contact - Contact information for the disaster maps team
• Disease Prevention Maps

  • Getting started - Basic information about disease prevention maps and why they are important
  • Disease Prevention Map Dataset Types - Overview of the dataset types generated for disease outbreaks (4 main maps and 3 supplemental)
  • Disease Prevention Map Metrics - Detailed information about the metrics available for each of these disease prevention map types
  • FAQs - Frequently asked questions about disease prevention maps
  • Contact - Contact information for the disease prevention maps team
• GeoInsights User Guide - Step-by-step user guide for our spatial visualization platform, GeoInsights
• Training Videos - "How To" training videos for GeoInsights - currently under construction