The Urban Data Platform is a computing environment and secure data repository of research-ready geocoded data for the Houston metropolitan area, facilitating cross-disciplinary research and community investigations.
By bringing together hundreds of different datasets about urban Houston on the same computer platform — covering demographics, housing, health, education, transportation, and more topics — researchers and others can conduct research projects across these datasets to provide new insights. It offers a deeper understanding of Houston’s people, government and built environment. The Urban Data Platform (UDP) team also supports statistical training methods related to urban analytics.