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waldoj / albemarle-broadband

Work and ideas about my work on the Albemarle Broadband Authority.
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Create a map to display collected data #4

Open waldoj opened 5 years ago

waldoj commented 5 years ago

New data sources (from e.g. #3) will benefit from having a place to display them. Figure out where to do that (maybe Leaflet, maybe a third-party service) and do so.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

I'm getting this set up in Mapbox.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

The sources are the process documented in #7 and #3. #7 is easy to automate, but #3 is regrettably manual. (I say this because I don't just want to do this as a one-off — I want to script updates.)

waldoj commented 5 years ago

Mapping WiGLE data in Mapbox will be awkward, because Mapbox only accepts GeoJSON. It's necessary to lop off the preamble and convert the data to CSV.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

I think a census-block-grouped dot map might be a good dataviz to try.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

Ehhh, on reflection I'm dubious of the merits of a dot map. It's going to create the false impression of even availability of service when, in fact, the very problem is uneven service within census blocks. It's going to be better to use an actual dot map for rural areas. For a view of the whole county, shading each census block will be a less-misleading way to visualize connectivity.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

Huh, so a mapping problem is that I have census block boundaries, but only census block group demographic data. (Block group appears to be the most-detailed demographic data that's provided.) So I can't marry these two things.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

Just adjusting for population may not be enough, given the low population of some census blocks, and the low broadband rate in some of those blocks.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

I'm getting there.

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The numbers are percentages. It ain't a great dataviz, but the data's all there.