Digital Civics and Critical Data

A Network Lens on Social Costs: Demolishing a Historic Street for a New Subway Station
While a new metro station enhances transit connetivity in the metro network, its construction plans to demolish a historic neighborhood in Guangzhou China. How can we quantify the social cost of the station in terms of loss in social connections and memories?
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A Network Lens on Social Costs: Demolishing a Historic Street for a New Subway Station
Detecting vacant, abandoned, and disinvested properties in Savannah Georgia through human-in-the-loop machine learning
What are the main factors that are predictive of blighted properties in the city of Savannah? How can we build a predictive model with housing experts’ local knowledge “in the loop”?
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Detecting vacant, abandoned, and disinvested properties in Savannah Georgia through human-in-the-loop machine learning
Place Social Diversity Explorer
A D3 explorer to show the racial and income diversity of people visiting point of interests (POI) in Atlanta. What kinds of POI are most/least diverse and where do they locate?
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Place Social Diversity Explorer