We wanted to find the post Gay Pride parade hotspots to assess the effect the parade on local businesses and transit.
This project looks at hotspots of where people went after the Gay Pride parade in New York City. We use an algorithm called DBSCAN to find clusters of taxi dropoffs from people being picked up around
Python and CARTO
Wenfei is a Data Scientist at CARTO. She has a background in urban planning, economics, and design and is very excited to be combining those skills at CARTO. Previously, Wenfei worked the Civic Data Design Lab and Senseable Cities Lab at MIT, where she researched vacancies or underuse in residential developments in China through social media and crowd-sourced data, the impact of street infrastructure on ethnic minority communities in Los Angeles, citizen-driven pollution documentation in China, and informal transit in Nairobi.
