nyc-school-zoning-tools

Easy-to-use forecasting tools to determine how many NYC schools need to be built and where to put boundaries for school zones to support communities.

Resources

NYC Open Data http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/html/open/data.shtml

https://data.ny.gov/

Developers https://data.ny.gov/developers

Explore NYC Data http://nyc.pediacities.com/Nycpedia

Features to predict # of NYC schools needed

• Number of school aged children group by age and location
• Number of NYC school capacity
• Number of NYC annual birth rate

Features to predict locations for building new NYC schools

• Locations with basic requirements for school building
• Locations where there are more children than school seats available

Features to predict school zone boundaries

• Highways
• Other natural boundaries