Conor Tompkins
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Shifting political winds
The purpose of this post is to recreate the “Shift from 2016” arrow map that the New York Times used to show which counties became more Democratic or Republican-leaning from 2016 to 2020.
Conor Tompkins
Nov 13, 2020
11 min read
R
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Politics
Analyzing major commuter routes in Allegheny County
Intro In this post I will use the Mapbox API to calculate metrics for major commuter routes in Allegheny County. The API will provide the distance and duration of the trip, as well as turn-by-turn directions.
Conor Tompkins
Oct 25, 2020
10 min read
R
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Allegheny County
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Commuters
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Census
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Mapbox
Graphing volatile home values in U.S. metro areas
Zillow publishes a variety of cool data that I haven’t explored much yet. The first dataset that caught my eye was the Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Zillow describes it as the “smoothed, seasonally adjusted measure of the typical home value and market changes across a given region and housing type”.
Conor Tompkins
Last updated on Oct 21, 2020
3 min read
Housing
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Zillow
Effect of COVID-19 on Pittsburgh parking transactions
The COVID-19 pandemic’s affect on commerce and mobility habits is well documented. For example, Apple publishes Mobility Trends reports about utilization of various transportation modes.
Conor Tompkins
Last updated on Oct 2, 2020
30 min read
Pittsburgh
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Parking
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COVID-19
Mapping BosWash commuter patterns with Flowmap.blue
This map shows the commuter patterns in the Northeast Megalopolis/Acela Corridor/BosWash metro area. I pulled the data from the Census Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LODES) system via the {lehdr} package. The map was created through the Flowmap.
Conor Tompkins
Sep 25, 2020
4 min read
Census
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Commuter patterns
Pittsburgh City Boundary Model Leaflet Map
View this classification model that distinguishes between census tracts that are inside or outside the City of Pittsburgh
Conor Tompkins
Aug 23, 2020
1 min read
R
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Pittsburgh
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Allegheny County
Modeling the Pittsburgh City Boundary
In this post I create a model that differentiates census tracts that are inside and outside the city limits of Pittsburgh
Conor Tompkins
Aug 14, 2020
10 min read
R
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Pittsburgh
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Allegheny County
Comparing Healthy Ride Usage Pre And "Post" COVID-19
Lawrence Andrews asked me on Twitter if there had been a change in Health Ride usage after COVID-19. Would be interested to see this @healthyridepgh data to compare pre-covid (2019) and during (2020) — Lawrence Andrews (@lawrenceandrews) August 13, 2020 The {tidyverts} universe of packages from Rob Hyndman provides a lot of tools that let you interrogate time series data.
Conor Tompkins
Aug 13, 2020
4 min read
R
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Pittsburgh
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Healthy Ride
Time series clustering COVID-19 case data
Interactive Tableau visualization of the clusters The goal of this post is to group states into clusters based on the shape of the curve of a state’s cumulative sum of COVID-19 cases.
Last updated on Aug 7, 2020
8 min read
Working with Paycheck Protection Program data in R
In this post, I walk through the process of reading in the data from the Paycheck Protection Program, and show some basic analyses that can be done. Load packages and set up environment:
Jul 8, 2020
9 min read
R
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Politics
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