Welcome to the GitHub repo for the Forces of Gentrification: Nashville, 2000-2010 R Shiny application. The app is intended to offer visitors an interactive visualiation of how historic redlining of neighborhoods and natural disasters correlate with patterns of gentrification in Nashville, TN between 2000 and 2010.
The application enables visitors to compare the demographics of Nashville's neighborhoods in 2000 and 2010 at the US census tract level. In addition, it allows visitors to overlay historical maps from the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (georectified and curated by the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab) and middle Tennessee tornado tracks (based on the NOAA's data) to explore spatial correlations between patterns of gentrification and historical and natural forces.
In this repo, you will find three data cleaning and exploration files:
- 01_get_census_data.Rmd contains the code used to retrieve 2000 Decennial Census and 2010 American Community Survey 5-year data from the US Census Bureau API.
- 02_data_cleanup.Rmd contains the scripts for cleaning the demographic data for the project.
- 03_map_geospatial_and_demographic_data.Rmd contains some exploratory mapping to prepare the layers utilized in the app.
In addition, there are two folders:
- The dashboard folder contains the code for the app but not the data. See the references.md file for the data sources.
- The data folder contains an excel file which specifies the variables that were retrieved from the US Census Bureau APIs.
The data sources for the Forces of Gentrification: Nashville, 2000-2010 project are linked on the Credits & Contacts page of the app itself. Additional context and resources may be found in the slide deck presented at the Nashville Software School Data Science Cohort 4 Mid-Course Demo Day on January 23, 2021.