People living in high-poverty neighborhoods in the U.S. don’t have access to good schools, jobs, or parks and other green spaces. Instead, the residents of such neighborhoods are exposed to violence and environmental hazards on a daily basis. Growing up…
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Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
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Mapping the ‘Great Divide’ Between Affordable Housing and Opportunity
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Tagged with: affordable housing, Center for American Progress, CityLab, data, Data stories, mapping, poverty, Tanvi Misra
How Satellites Can Help Us Understand Global Poverty
Algorithms identify farm land in Sri Lanka (in red) to analyze the agricultural productivity in the region—a possible indicator of economic development. (Orbital Insight) Citizen surveys are the most comprehensive means available to track poverty, but they aren’t perfect. They…
Tagged with: CityLab, economic development, imagery, insight, Orbital Insight, poverty, satellite, Sri Lanka, Tanvi Misra, World Bank
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