Sources for the profile data are the most recent ACS (2024), CDC PLACES (2024 release), USALEEP (not updated), and DCWS MRP estimates (2015-2024 pooled). There’s no fresh analysis done in this repo—this is a way to assemble data from other projects with readable headings and descriptions, and prep it for each city’s neighborhood profiles and online visualization.
Datasets prepped for download from other repos are in their respective tagged releases to ensure their stability and reproduceability. Not all assets from each tag are used, but the files in those releases are:
| repo | tag | updated | assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024acs | dist | 2026-01-29 | acs_nhoods_by_city_2024.rds, acs_town_basic_profile_2024.rds |
| cdc_aggs | v2024 | 2026-02-05 | cdc_health_all_lvls_nhood_2024.rds, cdc_health_all_lvls_wide_2024.csv |
| mrp | dcws15_24 | 2025-05-13 | mrp_estimates_2015_2024_town_profiles.csv |
This also creates its own release back into the scratchpad repo with topojson files of neighborhoods for each city to use for online visualization:
title: Geographies
tag: geos
draft: false
prerelease: false
immutable: false
author: camille-s
created: 2022-05-11T20:17:57Z
published: 2024-03-21T20:35:19Z
url: https://github.com/CT-Data-Haven/scratchpad/releases/tag/geos
asset: all_city_nhoods.rds
asset: bridgeport_topo.json
asset: hartford_topo.json
asset: new_haven_topo.json
asset: stamford_topo.json
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This uses snakemake to build. Rules available are:
all
all_no_sync
clean
combine_datasets
dag
distro
download_data
headings
make_shapes
notes
readme
sync_to_dw
upload_shapes
upload_viz_data
viz_data
The main build process is as follows:
Additional steps will create a version-tagged GitHub release and sync to data.world.