CY255: Urban Informatics and Visualization
By: Nancy Stetson and Cassandra Bayer Question: The Effect of Commute Times on Rental Prices The term “housing crisis” has become commonplace amongst Bay Area residents. The influx of businesses into the region has driven up rental prices, squeezed the market’s available housing stock, and increased the population. Our initial hypothesis posited that the increased … Continue reading Renting and Commuting in the Bay Area
The final project for this class is going to be centered around the cost of commuting compared with the cost of rents. Commuting data is connected to census zones called “Transportation Analysis Zones”, or TAZ. There are super districts, which are fairly large zones (in black in the map below) and there are districts (in grey). … Continue reading TAZ Zones and Craigslist Rents
For Exercise 8 I used Craigslist rental data for the Bay Area, combined with commute times for both driving and transit from the Google Directions API. The map shows where the housing is more or less affordable in the Bay. Red listings are unaffordable to someone who makes the median income in SF- Oakland metro area ($75,779). These … Continue reading Housing Affordability in the Bay Area
The city of San Francisco has some great open data sets, including this one, which locates each street tree in the city. I mapped the trees using Carto, and highlighted a few of the more plentiful species (and my personal favorites). The map highlights a piece of the city that is rarely acknowledged or noticed. … Continue reading Trees of San Francisco
For my first assignment for CY255 I created a map of my hometown using data from the city’s open data platform. Burlington is a small city, but it has been making a sustained effort to become more data-centric, and the availability of this dataset is one result. The data itself was relatively easy to work … Continue reading Three Maps of Burlington, VT
I am a second year Master of Public Policy student at UC Berkeley. In Urban Informatics and Visualization this semester I’d like to expand my skills with mapping spatial phenomena. I am particularly interested in learning how to make web based and interactive maps.