Tag: Data
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Exploring Python Libraries for Climate & Environmental Justice
As featured in “Python in Plain English“ 9/20/23 Let’s discuss how to use Python, a widely used programming language, for Environmental and Climate Justice. In this post we will provide a very basic background and understanding of how to use Python. Python offers an extensive range of libraries and tools for diverse applications, including the fields…
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Harnessing the US Census API for Demographic Data Retrieval
A Python-based guide to harness the US Census API for extracting detailed demographic data, including population characteristics and economic indicators, from specific geographic locations. With latitude and longitude coordinates from a CSV file, this approach can unlock a wealth of information for tailored data analysis and research.
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Unlocking Insights with Census Data: Understanding Demographics and Geographic Units
Demographic data is essential for understanding population dynamics and making informed decisions. The U.S. Census Bureau provides comprehensive demographic information through programs like the national census. ZIP codes, census blocks, and census tracts are geographic units used for data analysis. Demographic data is crucial for societal planning, market research, social and economic equity, and academic…
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Electric Utility Companies, Rates, and Locations: An Essential Understanding for Environmental Justice
Electric utility companies, their rates, and locations play a crucial role in achieving environmental justice. Understanding utility rates empowers individuals, promotes energy conservation, and guides corporate social responsibility. Policymakers benefit from this knowledge to promote energy equity and advocate for affordable renewable energy. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Utility Rates by Census Region API provides…
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Unpacking the Justice40 Initiative: An Insight into Its Expenditures to Date
The Justice40 Initiative, under the Biden administration, aims to direct 40% of federal benefits from climate and clean energy investments to disadvantaged communities. The initiative’s diverse expenditures include promoting clean energy technologies, enhancing infrastructure resilience, improving energy efficiency in housing, funding training and workforce development, and investing in research and development. To date, a considerable…
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Community Climate FAQs
How to effectively talk about climate change? Talking about Climate Change can be difficult, especially when there is disagreement among people on how to best respond to Climate Change. When talking about Climate Change, it’s important to focus on facts and data rather than opinion. Presenting Climate Change in terms of tangible effects that are…
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Baltimore’s urban heat island(UHI) footprint
Weekly Data Story Today’s post was not planned to coincide with the sweltering conditions in Baltimore – we’re supposed to feel like 107 today! Urban planners and the rest of the players responsible for designing cities intentionally do not want to design cities that are purposely suffocating their residents with high heat. As average temperatures continue…
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Tree Canopy Analysis in Northport, New York
It is crucial to comprehend the quality, quantity, and well-being of our trees in various settings, from dense forests to sparsely populated streetscapes, to enhance our environment. Trees play a pivotal role in providing numerous benefits and services to our planet, such as purifying the air, mitigating erosion, and reducing heat. Although evaluating tree canopies…
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Landfills’ Legacy – don’t throw this weekly data story away
Weekly Data Story Waste is part of everyone’s lives. Some people strive to significantly reduce the amount of trash they generate while others don’t give a second thought to what goes into the rubbish bin. In the US, most of what goes into a trash can ultimately finds its way to one of the country’s…
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Impact of the Pandemic on New York City’s Airbnb
Weekly Data Story How did the pandemic impact New York City’s Airbnb listings? For this analysis, we obtained our raw data from Kaggle and Inside Airbnb (great data). We crosschecked our sources with information from articles, data science blogs and other research sites to make sure that the data was reliable. Strangely, we could not obtain a dataset for the year 2020 from any…