CREDITS.md

Credits, Notes, and Reference

Converting from old Gist

• Old Repo (gist)
• How to merge with old repo
• How to reset to previous commit

Affordability Data

See the data dictionary.

Geography Data

• CSA Shapes
• CBSA Shapes
• https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-cart-boundary.html
• Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles - Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Related Statistical Areas -- 500k, 5m, 20m
• Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles - Counties -- 500k, 5m, 20m
• Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles - Places (Incorporated Places and Census Designated Places) -- state by state datasets
• http://ben.balter.com/2013/06/26/how-to-convert-shapefiles-to-geojson-for-use-on-github/
• https://github.com/censusreporter/census-api
• http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html
• http://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/TIGERweb-map-service.html

Shapefile to GeoJSON conversion process:

brew install gdal

cd cb_2013_us_cbsa_5m/
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs crs:84 cb_2013_us_cbsa_5m.geojson cb_2013_us_cbsa_5m.shp

cd cb_2013_us_county_5m/
ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs crs:84 cb_2013_us_county_5m.geojson cb_2013_us_county_5m.shp

Mapping

• http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/70557
• http://bsumm.net/2013/03/31/analyzing-mbostocks-queue-js.html
• https://github.com/mbostock/queue
• http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4060606
• https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Arrays#d3_map

NOTE: It is not methodologically sound to aggregate measures across household types (i.e. to calculate the mean or median of all household types within a given geography).

Tilesets

• https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/#maps