Children per school, district by district

What it does

Every year before school starts: how many children live in each part of your city and how many schools are within 2 km, with the most crowded areas written up by xMap AI as a data story, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Cairo, count who lives around, sort them by children_0_19 and keep the top 60, count the schools within 2 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by per_school and keep the top 15, write a report with xMap AI, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

School places are a story every year. This flow does the counting so the reporter can do the interviews.

Who it is for

Media, newsrooms & publishing. Newsrooms, broadcasters, publishers and media sales teams who need local stories, audiences and advertisers first. Every use case for media & publishing

Best use cases

• An education reporter
• A data journalism team
• A parents’ publication

What each run gives you

• A map
• An email with the draft

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 240 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 10 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. People in every block of the cityxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
4. Best 60 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
5. Schools within 2 kmxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
6. Children per schoolLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
7. Best 15 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
8. Write the data storyxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
9. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
10. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.