Thanks for participating in the NC Data4Good - DataCrunch for Social Good event. Below are some resources for reference as well as curated data sets relevant to childhood hunger and food insecurity in the areas that the United Way of the Greater Triangle serve.
Reference Material
List of resources on Childhood Hunger and Food Insecurity:
- Hunger Research in NC
- About School Meal Programs
- Food Insecurity in Households With Children: Prevalence, Severity, and Household Characteristics, 2010-11
- Food security trends
- Food security characteristics
- 2014–15 Performance and Growth of North Carolina Public Schools (PDF)
- Where Do Americans Usually Shop for Food and How Do They Travel To Get There? Initial Findings from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey
- Carolina Demography
- Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC: County Profiles
- USDA Food Access Research Atlas
- USDA Food Environmental Atlas
Data Sets
- Farmer's Markets - Export.csv
- Grocery Stores - cleandata_grocery_store.csv
- SNAP Retailers - SNAP-NC.csv
- Food Banks - food_bank-NC.csv
- Food Pantries - pantries.csv
- Bus Stops - local_agencies.csv, busstops.rds
- Schools - NCschools-info.csv, local_school_perf1314.csv, local_school_perf1415.csv
- American Community Survey (US Census) - Census-ACS
- Shapefile for Census Tracts (US Census) - census tract shapefile.zip
- Shapefile for Public School Zoning (US Census) - unified (elementary and secondary) school district zoning shapefile.zip
- Places in NC - NCdata.csv
- Feeding Sites - available at the event
- Active Agency Programs - agency_programs.csv, agency_programs_cleaned.csv
- FIPS codes for NC counties - fips_counties.csv
- Food Bank CENC counties and locations - FoodbankCENC_counties.csv, FoodbankCENC_locations.csv
- Area Health Resources File (AHRF) - ahrf_headers_parsed.csv, ahrf_parsed.csv
Technical Documents
- What makes a good data visualization?
- Data Visualization Checklist (PDF)
- Leaflet for R
- R Cheatsheets
Contributors
Data sets cleaned and scrubbed by Monika Sanghi, Zeydy Ortiz, Lucia Gjeltema, Tom Robinson and Mark Hutchinson
Projects
See the projects that were created: UWChallengeContact
This page maintained by Zeydy Ortiz (@DrZeydy)