An exploratory data analysis of the Blight Status Demolition data set from the City of New Orleans' open data portal (https://data.nola.gov/).

1. BlightStatus Demolitions
Data Over Time, Place, & Demographics

2. Data
• NOLA
• ACS
• Tiger Shapefiles

3. Resources/Tools
• RStudio
• ArcMap
• Tableau

4. Factor 1:
Population
• Even Distribution

5. Factor 2:
Income
• Negative Influence

6. Factor 3:
Age (65+)

7. Factor 4:
Age (<= 5)
• Evenly Distributed (can almost
make out a bell curve at 6%)

8. Factor 5:
Race
* Mostly Negative Influence

9. NOLA
Council
Districts
Source:
http://www.nolacitycouncil
.com/maps/maps.asp

10. Blight Dot Map
• Density but Cannot see much
else.

11. Blight
Choropleth
• Clearer Representation of
Blight Count
• Council Districts: C & D

12. Days to
Demolish

13. Demolition
Over
Time

14. Program &
Council
Districts

15. Program Time Series

16. Questions?
Thank you
• Next Steps