Objective
To support the United Way of the Greater Triangle's 2016 Childhood Hunger Challenge, the NC Data4Good group organized the DataCrunch for Social Good event. The main objective is to enable social innovators to address childhood hunger and access to fresh, nutritious food in Wake, Durham, Orange and Johnston county
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- Food Pantries
- Bus Stops
- Poverty Demographics
- Bringing Bus Stops and Pantries Closer
- Measuring the Distance People in Need Travel to Food Pantries
- NC Food Resource Exploration Map
Event Recap
Read the event recap: Data Crunch for Social Good Recap
Ideas
We captured some of the ideas that were discussed during the ideation process in the Wiki
Projects
To support the United Way of the Greater Triangle, the teams worked on the following projects:
- UWchallenge: Data - Where we are and where we need to go (PDF)
- Bus accessibility of food pantries (PDF)
- Measuring the distance people in need travel to food pantries (PDF)
- Childhood Hunger and Summer Feeding Sites (PDF)
- Getting NC produce to people in need (PDF)
- NC Food Resource Exploration Map (Shiny App)
- Poverty Demographics and Food Assistance Locations (PDF)
- Estimating food waste of grocery stores in Raleigh (PDF)
Data Sets
Data sets cleaned and scrubbed by Monika Sanghi, Zeydy Ortiz, Lucia Gjeltema, Tom Robinson and Mark Hutchinson
- 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
Thanks!
Thanks to MaxPoint for sponsoring this project for the United Way of the Greater Triangle. Thanks DataCrunch Lab and Research Triangle Analysts for organizing the event. Thanks to all volunteers and participants that contributed their awesome skills!
Contact us: NCData4Good@gmail.com