This spatial data equity tool from is extremely fascinating…You upload your own data set and it measures the correlation to demographic characteristics in the city where your data is from. So, I uploaded new construction building permits in the last year
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I need to fix the data type for the estimated cost field so that it’s recognized as a number and then I can use the tool to weight the permits by estimated construction cost
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It’s basically saying that these permits (new construction, estimated project cost of $200,000+ in last year) are disproportionately located in White and Asian Census tracts.
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It probably won't surprise you, but when I instructed the tool to weight building permits by their estimated construction cost, the disparity of new construction building permits in Chicago is *even greater*.
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Weighted means that for every $1 in estimated construction cost, the location of that permit got more "points".
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When you see that unweighted new construction permits of $200,000+ est. construction costs are overrepresented in white parts of Chicago by 10% and *weighted* ones are overrepresented in white parts by 20%, that means that white areas see projects with higher construction costs.
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