# Community Pulse Reviews
**Vendor:** Data n Dashboards  
**Category:** [Analytics Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-platforms)
## About Community Pulse
Community Pulse is a national community intelligence and benchmarking platform designed for councils, social organisations, trusts, and policy teams across Aotearoa New Zealand. The platform provides subscription-based access to 380+ interactive dashboards covering 13 cross-sector community, economic, social, and wellbeing themes for every territorial authority in New Zealand. These themes include: • Population & Demographics • Housing • Education & Skills • Economy & National Accounts • Health & Wellbeing • Labour Market • Income & Deprivation • Environment • Built Environment • Transport and accessibility National Benchmarking and Local Community Intelligence Community Pulse enables organisations to compare their communities with other regions across New Zealand while also exploring deep insights specific to their own territorial authority. Subscribers gain access to: • National benchmarking dashboards across all territorial authorities • Dedicated deep-dive dashboards for their own community • Long historical time-series insights • Cross-theme analysis across population, housing, economy, and wellbeing Integrated Data from Official Agencies Community Pulse integrates and harmonises datasets from 40+ official agencies, including Stats NZ, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, MBIE, MSD, and other national sources. The data is continuously updated in line with official release cycles, allowing organisations to focus on analysis rather than data gathering. Supporting Planning, Strategy, and Policy Organisations use Community Pulse to support: • Long-Term Plans • Annual Plans • Community wellbeing strategies • Policy development • Strategic planning • Elected member briefings • Community needs assessments • Funding applications Instead of building dashboards from scratch, teams gain access to a ready-to-use community intelligence layer maintained for their region.






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## Community Pulse Features
**Reports**
- Reports Interface
- Graphs and Charts
- Dashboards

**Data Preparation**
- Connectors
- Data Governance

**Data Modeling and Blending**
- Data Querying
- Data Filtering

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization

**Agentic AI - Analytics Platforms**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Self Service **
- Calculated Fields
- Data Column Filtering
- Data Discovery
- Search
- Collaboration / Workflow
- Automodeling

**Deployment & Integration - Analytics Platforms**
- Embedded Analytics and White-labeling

**Advanced Analytics**
- Predictive Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Big Data Services

**Performance & Scalability - Analytics Platforms**
- Large data handling and Query Speed
- Concurrent User Support

**Advanced Analytics & Modeling - Analytics Platforms**
- Data Modeling and Governance
- Notebook and Script Integration
- Built-in Predictive and Statistical Models

**Agentic AI Capabilities - Analytics Platforms**
- Auto-generated Insights and Narratives
- Natural Language Queries
- Proactive KPI Monitoring and Alerts
- AI Agents for Analytical Follow-ups

**Personalized Intelligence - Analytics Platforms**
- Behavioral Learning for Contextual Query Refinement
- Role-based Insight Personalization
- Conversational and Prompt-based Analytics

**Building Reports**
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- WYSIWYG Report Design
- Integration APIs

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