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I wanted to find out if US states varied in the amount of cats and dogs adopted normalized by population, so I mapped data of dog and cat adoptions by state, per 1,000 people. I used a choropleth to display data. I also created bivariate maps…

What are the spatial patterns of tree cover in the Philadelphia region? Does tree cover have a stronger correlation with race or income?

Tree cover has been historically
impacted by urban
development, historical
disinvestment, and
suburbanization. The reduction
of trees in urban areas
contributes to environmental
racism, whereby communities of
color often have fewer trees…

In order to combat climate change, it is imperative to replace individual automobile and air travel with mass transportation. The US Inter-City Rail system is lacking serious connections. Bus systems and routes can be useful in locations that are…

Black Americans have unequal access to wealth across the U.S., making up 13.6% of households but holding only 4.7% of wealth (U.S. Census Bureau 2022). Redlining, a widespread practice in the 1930s and 1940s, has contributed to this wealth gap, as…

This research aimed to look at how Pennsylvania's House voting districts have changed from 2001 to 2022, as there have been accusations of state gerrymandering. The findings show that Pennsylvania's House districts have actually become less irregular…

In 1937, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) assigned grades of A, B, C, and D to neighborhoods and land tracts across the U.S. These grades were meant to indicate the perceived risk for homeownership loans, but they were deeply racist and…

With global sea levels projected to rise significantly in the coming decades, coastal cities as we know them today are at risk. Miami's metropolitan area, particularly the densely inhabited barrier island of Miami Beach, is one of the areas at most…