Submitted by Sofia Villas-Boas on
This project's goal is to analyze residential water use in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, with a special focus on the effects of social pressure for excessive water users during the height of the recent drought. This research began a couple years ago, but the analysis we could conduct was limited given data we had at that time. Recently we acquired (and continue to acquire) data that will allow us to greatly extend this analysis and answer a bunch more exciting questions. With the new data come many opportunities to incorporate other types of data (satellite imagery, census data, parcel data, twitter and online presence, Nextdoor neighborhoods) and greatly improve the analysis, which motivates this SPUR project.
help with census data collection, and satelite data coding
please read the top half of this page and then this article to get a little more sense of the policy we're analyzing: EBMUD's Excessive Use Penalty.
willigness to work in a team coding data and using R.