Logan Shertz

The Question/ProblemBy Tara Vickers I have done a lot of work with BNIA regarding automating their data processing and analyzation. Of course, I did come across some issues […]

By Bozkurt Karaoglan

“In 2019, for everyone thousand residents in Downtown/Seton Hill area of Baltimore City, there were 25 fast food outlets per 1000 residents.  As of the last census, the total population of […]

By Jonathon Cleary

Summary

For the Fall 2022 Data Science Corps, my project involved looking at the correlation between demolitions, homicides, and shootings in Baltimore City for the years 2019 and 2020. In […]

By Jaia Russell

Purpose

The purpose of my project is to analyze what people around the city need the most assistance with for the year 2021. Through this observation, I will be able to see what the community […]

By Kabah Selli

Background:

The City of Baltimore has a system called “Open Checkbook Baltimore” wherein they publicly publish the various transactions that the city has made over the course of a fiscal yea […]

By Ibraheem Sule

Introduction 

Mental disorders are among the most common, chronic, and disabling health conditions, affecting all Americans in some way. Although these disorders have clear biological […]

By John Cleary

My time over the summer of 2022 was spent working with the City of Baltimore’s Chief Data Officer Justin Elszasz on a dashboard for the mayor and/or Chief Administrative Officer of Baltimore C […]

By Bozkurt Karaoglan

According to Commissioner Michael S. Harrison,  one of the guiding principles of violent crime reduction strategy in our city is: “Intelligence-led policing that focuses on leveraging in […]

By Charles Lac
Criminal intelligence is vital for solving crimes. However, it is difficult to quantify such information because the amount of information gathered strictly depends on the cooperation and […]

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Baltimore Data Week 2022 Agenda:
Monday, July 18th (VIRTUAL)
Topic: Greening and Recreation

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Session Details: Playgrounds are vital community assets that support the h […]

With Baltimore experiencing another decade of population loss that represents continued stress on the city’s stability and positive change, the Baltimore Community Change Project 2010-2020 has launched an ongoing […]

By Kaitlyn Baker

Web scraping is a significant tool to have when considering the acquisition of data from online sources. A web scraper can be designed to extract data from one or more websites to be used as […]

By: Amivi Atsu
The Process
Meetup API was very helpful in getting data such as the number of members per country, per state, per city. It was also helpful in getting data about the additional number of members […]

What’s in a Name?A rose may be a “rose by any other name”, as Shakespeare writes, but when it comes to communities, the name used to refer to place connects everyone to a sen […]

Redistricting data was just released hours ago by the US Census Bureau https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/rdo/summary-files.html and the BNIA team is working quickly to look at how p […]

By: Hannah Boyd – (Data Science Corps Fellow, Spring 2021)

The last year has been a tough and stressful time for many people. Luckily, there are finally a few different vaccines available for COVID-19, and […]

By: Ruth Robinson

Objective and Background:

With the rise of the novel COVID-19 virus changing the social norms of the population in 2020 and persisting into 2021, many have individually conformed to those […]

By Michael Vandi (Data Science Corps Fellow, 2020)

In the era of data-driven decision making, an intrinsic part of data analysis means understanding what is in the datasets to begin with. However, as data […]

By Brian Kelly (Data Science Corps Fellow, Fall 2020)

When it comes to transportation, urban communities worldwide will always need access to good public transit. To help better define what makes a community […]

By Brian Kelly

On August 1st, 2019 Baltimore City launched a shared dockless vehicle program where a user can rent a scooter using a mobile app. The Scooters are owned by the private companies like Jump, Lime, […]