Bring community resilience data into planning
Make resilience data easier to consult while evaluating a market, service area, or community program.
Trigger
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Action
Get Community Resilience Estimates
Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.
Why this helps
Community-level considerations are easy to skip when resilience data takes a separate search and setup process.
- Prompts consideration of resilience measures in area planning
- Uses the geography and variables named in the discussion
- Keeps data review connected to the original planning thread
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Slack and Census bureau to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create the automation through Automations or by asking Notis in plain language.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to retrieve Community Resilience Estimates for the stated geography, year, and variables, and surface any missing inputs.
- 4Choose Channel Message Received as the trigger and a run-report channel.
- 5Test with a real planning message containing a geography and requested measures.
Questions about this workflow
What does the workflow need to retrieve CRE data?
The instruction should identify the geography, year, and variables of interest. If the request lacks details, Notis can report what is missing.
Is this suitable for every business decision?
It is useful when community resilience measures are relevant to the area under review, not as a substitute for unrelated market data.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Slack triggers
Census bureau actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get ACS 1-Year Estimates
Tool to retrieve 1-year american community survey (acs) estimates for a specified geography. use when you need the most recent annual acs data for a given area.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get ACS 5-Year Estimates
Tool to retrieve 5-year american community survey estimates for a specified year. use when detailed acs data by geography and variables is required.
New Channel Created Trigger
Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.
Get American Business Survey
Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Get Community Resilience Estimates
Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.
Direct Message Received
Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
Get County Business Patterns
Tool to retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year. use when you need county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.
Message Reaction Added
Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Get Decennial Census Data
Tool to retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need census variables for a given geography.
Message Reaction Removed
Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Get Population Estimates
Tool to retrieve population estimates program (pep) data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need population or demographic estimates for specific geographies.
Reaction Added Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.
Get Variable Details
Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year. use when you need the label, concept, data type, attribute codes, and valid-value constraints.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Slack and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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