CoP: Data Science: Affordable Housing Access to Food Pantries

[akhaleghi]

Prerequisite(s)

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• How many hours you can commit to working on this in the next week (minimum of 2)
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Overview

We want to analyze to what extent affordable housing residents have access to food pantries and meal programs. To do this, we want to examine the geographic location of these housing projects in relation to their accessibility to pantries and programs.

Action Items

Phase 1

• Find available data sources and add to Resources section, particularly the Food Oasis data.
• Determine is this is one-time or ongoing project (and assign appropriate label)
• Write one-sheet (see Resources below)
  • Define stakeholder
  • Summarize project, including value add
  • Define project 6 month roadmap
  • Detail history (if any)
• Define tools to be used for analysis and visualization (if applicable)
• Create issues required to fulfill project requirements, including exploratory data analysis, required tasks, and deliverables
  • Create data dictionary (EDA task)
  • Perform data cleaning (EDA task)
  • Understand and outline data context

Resources/Instructions (Updated)

• Data source for affordable housing locations (updated monthly).
• Visualization of affordable housing locations.
• Food Oasis Wiki
• LA Food Bank
• LA County Food Distribution Sources and Programs
• Chirp LA PDF containing active food banks in LA

[MDivyaPrakash]

Divya Prakash Manivannan
I plan to commit 20 hours in the upcoming weeks and will provide an update on my progress with a comment below.

[MDivyaPrakash]

Working on completing the items of Phase 1. Currently working to collect the relevant Data Sources needed for the Resources section.

[MDivyaPrakash]

Collected the relevant available resources and working on the Task3 and its related components.

[akhaleghi]

Hi @RachaelLim01 are you still working on this issue? If so, please provide any updates here

[MDivyaPrakash]

Working on completing the Distance Analysis between Affordable Housing listings and the Food Pantries listed in the Food Oasis wiki. This involved cleaning of the JSON data received via request, for deriving proper insights. Also, working on the documentation.

[MDivyaPrakash]

Uploaded, the python notebook containing the basic analysis of the data. Working on completing the documentation.

[akhaleghi]

@MDivyaPrakash Are there any recent updates on this issue?

[MDivyaPrakash]

The basic analysis has been completed and updated in the repository --> Link to Repository

This work could potentially be extended by incorporating different datasets of pantries from various sources, allowing for a comprehensive analysis of multiple behaviors. Additionally, these analyses can be transitioned from Jupyter Notebooks to a web dashboard, enhancing interactivity.

For now, this issue can be closed, but it can serve as a starting point for future analysis.

[MDivyaPrakash]

Attaching the required documentation, for this issue.

Affordable_Housing_Project_HackforLA.pdf

[MDivyaPrakash]

Closing the issue. Relevant details are attached above.

[tpham16]

Tom Pham
3 Hours in the next week
I plan to work on this project in December.