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Data processing, cleaning, and spatial analysis to determine food deserts (areas with low access to grocery stores) for nonprofit
organization Urban Habitat Chicago, and using the derived information to find available city land suitable for community gardens or other urban agriculture-based initiatives.

  • Merging of Cook County Assessor property information, City of Chicago Food Safety Inspections, and CTA GTFS Transit Data
  • Leveraging of publicly available data sets, data mining
  • Network-based Analysis to determine public transit accessibility
  • Production of portfolio of selected sites and other map and data products

Urban Habitat Chicago
Site Selection Intern

May 2011 - August 2012

Web-hosted map:

Also volunteered installing community gardens, pervious concrete paths, and drip irrigation

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