Creator(s): Eamonn Ryan, Sophie Louie & Noah Mack
Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization
We met with the Boston City Councilor for District 7, Tania Anderson, who was excited to talk with us about the problems her district — which includes parts of Roxbury, Fenway, and the South End — is facing. Specifically, the Councilor mentioned drop-out rates, foster care rates, police presence, food deserts, heat islands and homeownership disparities between the black and brown residents of Roxbury and residents of other neighborhoods. Based on the data we received from the Councilor’s office and her questions about the differences in Roxbury’s funding compared to other neighborhoods in Boston, we wanted to explore the relationship between crime rates, types of crime, and funding in the different neighborhoods. After exploring the web for some databases that could help our exploration of Roxbury’s makeup and funding, we settled upon the crime database.