This project was done for GEO 425 at Michigan State University. I gathered data on the locations of public libraries and public high schools in Chicago, along with performance attributes on how many students graduated from each school and different test scores. I also gathered road data in Chicago. In ArcGIS Pro, I cleaned the road data to only show traversable roads and calculated how long it would take to drive on each road using the speed limit and length attributes. I performed network analysis by assigning each public library as a facility and finding each library's service areas that were within 2 minute and five minute drives. The data was reformatted into GeoJSON files and imported in kepler.gl where each school was symbolized based on its four-year graduation rate. Schools that fell inside library service areas tended to have higher graduation rates, although there are some outliers and when charted, the relationship between distance to libraries and graduation rate is only slghtly negatively correlated. Further data would be needed such as school and library funding to determine if distance is really a factor in school performance or if other attributes like wealth affect performance more.
- Download and extract the .zip file.
- Open the FinalProject425 file in ArcGIS Pro.