Baltimore gun offenders and where academics don’t live
An interesting plotting of the residential addresses (not crime locations) of gun offenders. You need to see the post to observe how stark the “island” of academics appears on the map.
Illustration of non-causation, unless you want to contend that the presence of academics in a neighborhood drives out gun offenders. Which would argue in favor of more employment and wider residential patterns for academics. I would favor that but suspect that is personal bias.
A cross between this map and a map of gun offenses would be a good guide for housing prospects in Baltimore.
What other data would be useful for such a map? Education, libraries, fire protection, other crime rates…. Easy enough since there are geographic boundaries as the binding points but “summing up” information as you zoom out might be interesting.
That is say crime statistics are on a police district basis and as you zoom out, you want information from multiple districts merged and resorted. Or you have overlapping districts for water, electricity, police, fire, etc. Having a geographic grid becomes your starting place but only a starting place.