Educational and economic opportunity, as well as health outcomes, depend on the availability of affordable, high-speed Internet access. The COVID-19 pandemic—and in particular society’s increasing reliance on reliable high-speed broadband Internet access during the crisis—has accelerated and magnified existing disparities. As the essential tasks of living move online, internet access is increasingly becoming an issue of economic opportunity.
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Please create a folder with your GitHub username and use it to store any code you write during the DataDive. Thank you!
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src: Any code files or notebooks -
examples: Pre written examples to help you get started -
output: Any graphs, maps or other by products for sharing -
data: All data is open. Save any data here that is useful for sharing and saving. E.g. a transformation or cleaning of a raw dataset. It is best practice to save here and the Google drive.
Please feel free to add to this repo directory as needed.
- Data representation:
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a. Align Ookla data at the census tract level for Florida.
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b. Map the FCC and Ookla datasets at the census tract level for one of the following states: California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New York, Texas, Washington.
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c. Add ACS data to the maps for each state. These will now include availability (FCC data) / performance ( Ookla data) / and access (ACS data) for each state.
- Data augmentation:
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a. Conduct EDA on the New York City Permit Dataset. Where are street construction permits for fiber, 5G installation, repair or removal, spectrum communications taking place in the city?
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b. What other cities (beyond Chicago and NYC) have similar open datasets for street construction permits related to Internet fiber?
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c. What additional open data sets can you find that may be relevant to exploring construction for internet fiber or 5G?