This Project involved creating models for Energy Distribution.

An interesting urban question is "can we measure and predict energy use based on observables that are easily acquired". For example the urban observatory at CUSP can monitor lights: they are a relatively easy observable. All you need is a camera, and a pipeline to process your data. But how does the light coming from a window relate to the total energy consumption? We generally postulate that light is a proxy for occupancy, and that occupancy is a good predictor of energy consumption.

If we have data on the energy consumed by a building how well does that relate to the number of units in the building?

Data on energy consumption can be found here for the city of NY https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/Energy-and-Water-Data-Disclosure-for-Local-Law-84-/rgfe-8y2z

However this datasets does not have the number of units. We can find that in the Pluto dataset.

Reading in the Pluto data for manhattan, which will give me the number of units ber building Manhattan/MNMapPLUTO.shp