usds / justice40-tool

A tool to identify disadvantaged communities due to environmental, socioeconomic and health burdens
https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/
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Census tracts surrounded by DACs should also be considered DACs #1507

Closed emma-nechamkin closed 2 years ago

emma-nechamkin commented 2 years ago

This issue seeks to address "donut holes" in our DAC map. This will involve the following:

  1. For all census tracts that have at least one DAC neighbor, calculate the share of neighbors that are DACs
  2. Over a certain threshold, those tracts will also become DACs

In analysis, I did this analysis first within state, and then, nationally for all tracts with 50% or more DAC neighbors within state.

Some caveats:

  1. First, we will have to move up some of the geocoding / reading geojson work from etl_score_geo to etl_score, since there are now parts of the score that depends on neighboring tracts
  2. The exact neighbor share used depends on final analysis; we will start with a threshold of 85%
emma-nechamkin commented 2 years ago

Waiting for CEQ approval to implement this