How to Use This Dashboard

How to Use This Dashboard

How you use this platform might depend on your role and interests within Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. The data provided serves many purposes, offering useful information to help you understand the progress and needs of our region better.

If you’re a resident, you may want to learn more about the health of our community to better help your family, neighbors, and friends. Using this data can help you learn about who lives in our community and the overall needs we have.

If you’re a community partner, health professional, or elected official, you can use this dashboard to inform policy, priorities, supply information for grant applications, or learn more about where to allocate resources.

  • Understand the Needs of a Community: Look for gaps and issues within a certain neighborhood or county
  • Learn More About a Priority Area: Understand one of the six key community priorities with a deep dive
  • Address Gaps and Measure Success: Better target interventions and program offerings where they are needed most, and measure results to demonstrate impact.

Dashboard Controls

The Whole Health Dashboard is designed to be interactive and easy to navigate. Here are the main ways you can explore and use the data:

Export & Save

You can export and save reports for later use in presentations, grant proposals, or community planning.

Data Loading

Please note: some reports may take a moment to load. Data is updated regularly, so the information you see may change as new updates become available.

Ways to Interact

Click the “Learn More” sections for context, definitions, and deeper explanations of the data you’re viewing.

The “Learn More” sections on the dashboard are meant to give a quick, impactful insight tied to the data—almost like a mini case study or headline fact—followed by the clickable Learn More prompt.

Example: Individuals with high subjective debt—meaning they feel more financially burdened than others—reported an 11.7% increase in perceived stress symptoms and a 13.2% increase in depressive symptoms, compared to the average. 

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Use thumbnail previews to quickly scan available reports and choose the one most relevant to your interests.

Follow the thumbnail to explore more data connected to the topic displayed.

For example, you can view the percentage of people with health insurance across DFW households. Use the toggle to switch between maps and hover over regions to see details such as median household income by city, neighborhood, zip code, or census tract.

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Follow the charts and graphs to explore trends and patterns in the data. Reports may be displayed as bar graphs, line graphs, or tables, allowing you to compare differences across time, places, and populations. Hover over each chart to see detailed values and insights.

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To link directly to a specific section on a page, hover over a heading or visualization. Two chain links should appear. Clicking on those links will move that heading or visualization to the top of the page, and you can then copy the link in the search bar to use as a direct link to that section of a page. You can also right click and select ‘copy link address’.

You can bookmark the link, and email or share it on social media.

 

Customize what you see using filters powered by MySidewalk reports. You can explore data by:

  • Place (city or neighborhood)

  • County

  • Zip code

  • Census tract

Collections are also available, grouping related data together for easier comparison.

Hovering over a label on a visualization will immediately highlight the topic for focus. Sometimes it’s helpful to view a few pieces in a more direct way. Click directly on the label to turn the filter on and off. You can then export the filtered visualization at its current view.

You can bookmark the link, and email or share it on social media.