Case Study: Food Deserts
About
Where do people have low income and live far from a supermarket? Map the USDA Atlas, then rebuild its analysis from open data
Objectives
- Explain the concept and history of food deserts and the USDA's Low Income, Low Access (LILA) framework
- Provide an overview of the Food Access Research Atlas data from the USDA
- Visualize official food desert designations for any U.S. state (Beginner notebook)
- Reproduce the USDA methodology from raw open data and validate it against the official Atlas (Expert notebook)
Instructor
Aniket Dev Roy
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