Week 3

This session will be recorded

Today’s Agenda

• UP206A Git Puller
• Welcome to week 3!
  • Concerns?
  • Updated office hours:
    • Yoh: Thursdays 1PM - 3PM and by appointment
      • Schedule an appointment
    • Chris: Thursdays 10AM-12PM and by appointment
      • Zoom room for Chris’s office hours
    • Eleanor: Wednesday 4-6pm and by appointment
      • Zoom room for Eleanor’s office hours
• Lab: Census data exploration in python using pandas
• Code review (Chris)
• Reading discussion (Eleanor)

Assignments

Group Assignment #2: Census Data Exploration

For this group assignment, each group member will create and submit a separate Jupyter Notebook. Each notebook should choose census indicators that are relevant to your research project. For example:

• one group member may choose to do a race profile for Los Angeles, and the other member may choose to do the same race profile for New York
• one member may choose to do a transportation profile for Los Angeles, and the other member may choose an education profile also for Los Angeles
• each member may choose a different time period to do a temporal analysis.

Do not copy and paste the class lab. Make sure to start a brand new notebook.

If you are working on a project outside of the United States, consult with me to find an alternative dataset to explore.

1. The first cell of the notebook should be a markdown cell that includes a title, description, and author of the assignment.
2. Download census variables relevant to your research question (if you are working outside of the United States, consult with me to find an alternative dataset)
3. Create a Jupyter Notebook and use pandas/geopandas to explore and visualize the data
4. Produce several charts, including one or more maps
5. Make sure to document each procedure with markdown cells with relevant headers
6. Run the cells in the notebook, and make sure the notebook “reads” from top to bottom, telling a story
7. Upload each Jupyter Notebook along with the associated census data file to your group repo

Reading Assignment

Geoff Boeing

Read or watch one of the following pieces. Then, write a short reaction paragraph as a markdown file in your GitHub repo titled Week3_reading_assignment.md. Be prepared to discuss and present your reaction during our next session.

• OSMnx: New methods for acquiring, constructing, analyzing, and visualizing complex street networks
• Off the Grid… and Back Again? The Recent Evolution of American Street Network Planning and Design
• Geoff Boeing’s presentation to Urban Planners
• Late addition! Isochrone Mapping of Urban Transport: Car-dependency, Mode-choice and Design Research