Boston Evictions Shiny App

Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Purpose and Background

The purpose of this project was to help the Office of Housing Stability gain insight from their eviction data. The main objectives were to help the office understand geographic variation in evictions, the property managers who were evicting the most tenants, and to evaluate the City’s progress on reducing evictions.

Data

The data underlying this application was intially collected by volunteers who transcribed physical records from Boston’s Housing Court into an excel spreadsheet. The data was cleaned and reshaped for visualization in the app. The app includes data on evictions from 2014-2016.

App and Screenshots

Open app (Credentials required)

The app is secured to protect individual-level data. The screenshots below show the appearance and capabilities of the application.

Mapping | lubov mckone

Boston Evictions Shiny App

Purpose and Background

Data

App and Screenshots

Filters and appearance

Levels of Geographic Visualization

Street-Level Insight

Export the underlying data

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