Feature request - internal use (only?)

[ehesch]

@eroten Tracey and Colin have mentioned (several times!) that it would be great if there was a way to compare/rank proposed additions with an aggregated "equity" metric. I don't necessarily feel great about turning something like this over to the agencies, but I think that we can do something internal that fits the bill!

I see 2 options (maybe we want both?! there are probably others too....):

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1. Create an aggregate index of "need for parks/trails". I don't think it would be wise to do the buffering calculations with this....it'd be more of a mapping tool.

• Rescale all ACS variables into z-scores. Caveat = not much variation in some acs variables, plus some strong correlation between variables which we'd want to reduce. I'd suggest using variables corresponding to underserved populations: % POC, % below 185% poverty line, % age 0-21|65+ , % disability
• either a) sum a tract's z-scores and map that value, or b) for each variable, if z>0 assign a "1" value (indicating "need for parks") and sum the recoded variables for each tract, and map that.

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2. Create a comparative radar chart (or honestly bar graph works too) for selected parks.

• User selects parks to compare
• For each park, all the summarized acs values are plotted in a way that allows comparison.

[eroten]

We may also be able to incorporate the equity considerations dataset here! See repo