Project 3: Telling a spatial story

Background

SafeGraph claims to be the 'source of truth for places data' and they allow college faculty and students free use of their data. I have downloaded data for Marietta and Kennesaw that we can use to get experience with the complexity of spatial-temporal data. However, you can elect to pull data for your own location or Point of Interest (POI) type using SafeGraph as well.

As a class, we will identify a business purpose for this data. Once we settle on a purpose, we will then finalize the project tasks.

Readings

Data information

This data cannot be shared in your repository based on our use agreement with SafeGraph. However, you can display your results and snippets to help explain your project. Use their FAQ for additional guidance.

• Core Places data dictionary
• Geometry data dictionary
• Patterns data dictionary
• KSUDS SafeGraph Data

SafeGraph Packages

• SafeGraphR and Github repo
• Safegraph_py and Github repo

Spatial Packages

• R: sf
• Python: GeoPandas

Tasks

1. Complete the data joing and munging in R and Python.
2. Complete the visualizations in R and Python.

• Create an account with SafeGraph
• Create a data investigation narrative or question that will drive your project.
• Tell a story through time-series charts for your narrative.
• Tell a story through spatial maps for your narrative.
• Include a visualization that displays space and time in your narrative.