Lower Manhattan is one of New York City’s most affluent and crowded districts. It is not only a financial district where Wall Street locates and highly-educated people stay, but also a must-see tourist destination. Therefore, as a business district, Lower Manhattan is highly competitive, and also full of opportunities. To better understand  the retailer market…

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Introduction This report explores categorical and geospatial data collected through the Linked Open Data (LOD) for Museums Fellowship offered by the Pratt Institute School of Information and the Whitney Museum of American Art and visualized using CARTO, a proprietary Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud based platform for GIS and web mapping. The goal of…

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Heat Map of New Construction in NYC 2018 https://vsaunder.carto.com/builder/1812fc93-fd8a-4f96-aad4-179c91bcd1dc/embed Carto offers analytical and visualization tools for use with location and spatial data. Working with multiple data sets to get a feel for how the application operates provided me with a starting point for grasping their “location intelligence” methodology (carto.com). Carto offers numerous analysis tools to…

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Link to the Visualization This lab was my first experience using Carto. I initially wanted to use this data from Peace Research Institute Oslo. Every time I tried to upload it, however, I encountered a “data has too many rows” error message, despite it only having 1900+ rows. I eventually conceded defeat and switched to…

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