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Simulations, Models, and Visualizations of Portland Fire and Rescue data
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Compute population density metrics #23

Closed futurechris closed 7 years ago

kielejocain commented 7 years ago

Blocked by #4

Edit: As #4 has been broken into tasks, this is now blocked by #38

kielejocain commented 7 years ago

@futurechris Do we want this by something other than census block? FMA, perhaps?

futurechris commented 7 years ago

If we're able to do FMA, and maybe fire block, I think those would both be good.

I understand there's been a bit of trouble with finding a principled and statistically valid/reasonable way to map from census block to FMA. There are "objective" approaches, but they aren't going to produce great data.

My guess is we'll have to just pick something and go with it, then thoroughly document our assumptions and likely effects of our decisions. May be the best we can do.

kielejocain commented 7 years ago

Handled in https://github.com/hackoregon/emergency-response/commit/7ec6bf3858ed0c18956e5a0cb3deee9a8907e16e. (cf. census_eda_geo.ipynb)