Data Constellation
Every voice as a connected map, surrounded by the district context that explains it
Not yet available
Data Constellation is a feature we're actively building. It appears on your dashboard marked "Coming soon": the card is visible but not yet clickable. The video on this page previews how it will work. If you'd like early access or want to weigh in on the design, reach out to your Polaris contact.
A report covers one season and one question set. The Data Constellation will hold everything people have shared as a connected map, with your district's own documents alongside it.
The map
Every conversation you record will become points on a map: the themes people raised, the moments where they raised them, and the threads between conversations that touched the same thing. Instead of reading one report cover to cover, you'll be able to start from a theme and follow it across grades, buildings, and a year of sessions.
A report answers the questions you asked this season. The map will show where a theme has been building since last fall, which buildings are the outliers, and which moment everyone should hear.
The context library
Listening data is most useful in context, so the Constellation will also hold the other documents your district already works with. When you ask Polaris a question, or when we draft your next listening report, we'll draw on these documents alongside the conversations.
Good candidates:
- 1, 5, and 10-year district plans
- Current quantitative data: survey results, attendance, grades
- Feedback forms from individual classes
- Curriculum maps, vision documents, climate plans
- Anything else that relates to what students are talking about in their empathy interviews
You'll be able to add:
- Files from your computer:
.docx,.pdf,.xlsx, plain text. - Google Drive: a direct connection, so updates to a shared Drive doc flow through without you re-uploading.
Added files will be searchable and citable. When Polaris draws on a document in a report or a search result, you'll see which file the context came from.
When to add something
Add a document whenever its content might shape how a future report is read. For example:
- A district strategic plan, so themes from conversations can be mapped back to district goals.
- Recent climate-survey numbers, so the qualitative findings sit next to the quantitative ones.
- Class-specific feedback forms, so a report on instructional quality can connect themes to the classes students were referring to.
You don't need a huge library. A handful of well-chosen documents is usually more useful than dozens of loosely related ones.
Together, the map and the library turn a report from "what people said this season" into "what people said over time, next to what your district is working on."