CLIMATE AND EQUITY MAPPING PLATFORM
I spearhead data science and visualization along with product design initiatives for dashboards at the Office of Civic and Community Engagement. Our team built out the Miami Affordability Project platform to incorporate heat (land surface temperatures, cooling centers…), housing (air conditioning, energy burden…), health (COPD, Asthma Prevalence…), and equity data (HOLC boundaries, tree canopy coverage…)—amounting to dozens of new metrics—to inform policies in South Florida.
In collaboration with local government, the tool has been used to inform a range of policies including:
Identifying areas to plant trees to increase canopy coverage and offset the Urban Heat Island Effect.
Identifying areas that need to improve stormwater management infrastructure.
Identifying communities in need of cooling centers.
Identifying candidate houses for ‘cool roof’ treatment etc…
In my role, I am able to shepherd data from the source all the way through to public facing interactive dashboards—serving as a data analyst and product designer. In the process we’ve routinely met with 50+ stakeholders and held 5+ usability tests.
The goal of the project is to increase accessibility to data/information to support local government, community members, and related stakeholders in developing social, economic, and environmental policies.
My Toolkit: Adobe Suite, ArcGIS, Figma, GeoPandas, Pandas, Python, Seaborn
Design: Mockup samples
With the MAP 4.0 update we introduced new heat related data, including health, equity, and environmental metrics. The above image is a mockup showing the new heat related environmental metrics.
Design: Updated Icons and Color Scheme
User testing and card sorting methods were used to cluster datasets into three primary classifications: Demographics, Built Environment, Natural Environment
BEFORE
AFTER
(Hover State and Default)
Color Scheme for Map (Choropleths, Rasters etc…) was optimized for ADA accessibility
Analysis: Heat at Tract Level
Analysis: Tree Canopy Coverage at Tract Level
Report: Summary Factsheet
Developed a series of 6+ factsheets for distribution among stakeholders to summarize analytical findings.
University of Miami, Office of Civic and Community Engagement, Miami, FL
Data Analytics, Product Design (Mapping Platform)
Leading data management, analysis, visualization, and insight intiatives
Conducting analyses and curating presentations leveraging a robust toolbox (ArcGIS, Python, GeoPandas, Pandas, Seaborn) to inform climate and equity policy in South Florida
Redesigning the Miami Affordability Platform UX/UI (Adobe, Figma, Leaflet) to incorporate heat resilience data
Utilizing agile framework to coordinate workflows with the development team and stakeholders