This repository builds off the work done by Tyler Dukes, found in this Github repo. This repository takes the ouptut from there and preprocesses some of it for use in the article Security For Sale, published by The Charlotte Observer and Raleigh's News & Observer. Further explanation of the step by step process can be found in the preprocessing_map_data.ipynb
notebook.
The main hexbinning script lightly modifies the work done by Chris Henrick with Turf for creating hexbins. I started looking into creating Wurman dots as well in the hexbin-processing.js
script.
There are several Python package requirements (I didn't make a pipenv
or equivalent file...)
There are a few Node package requirements covered in the package.json
And there is a requirement to downloand and install this binary locally:
The primary data used in the analysis can be found here.
Additional data for parcels comes from the County of Mecklenburg.
Drawing neighborhood shapes made use of geojson.io.