Past Projects

Past Project

Digital Mapping for the city of Cleveland

We began work on a map for the city of Cleveland with the focus on students in the Cleveland Municipal School District and the neighborhoods they live in. The discoveries made during this effort reflected what we say in Dallas as the poorest areas of the city, majority black, and densely populated were highly correlated with low rates of broadband subscription. The error made by policy makers was not taking the level of detail into account when performing their analysis. Using American Community Survey data from Census Bureau and focusing at the tract level showed the true deficits in access to affordable internet. Rates that were at 40% for one level of detail rose to 70% when additional focus was placed at the sub-census-tract level (less than 0.9 square miles).

To attack this issue means finding the areas most vulnerable to the digital divide and strategically implementing change on the ground. Without the targeted data and metrics collected by a team of talented researchers, we are on a rudderless ship steering into a minefield. To increase effectiveness of the current model, we plan to include demographic data at the census block group (the smallest geographic unit available) that factor into an index to determine severity across regions. This will give us the nationwide analysis needed to understand more fully the scope and depth of the digital divide specifically in access to affordable broadband.

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