Title: What defines a neighborhood?
General Topic: Research
General Theme: TBD ("Local, state, and federal agency adoption and use" or "Data science"?)
What defines a neighborhood? We generally think of neighborhoods as geographic areas of similar characteristics. But what set of characteristics and what level of similiarity? What determines where the boundary lines actually gets drawn? Perceptions of where neighborhoods begin and end vary greatly from person to person. Neighborhoods defined from a data point-of-view also differ greatly. This talk presents several statistical techniques on defining neighborhoods from spatial clustering algorithms to origin-destination based approaches, and examines how neighborhood change-over-time can be represented. How a neighborhood gets defined affects residents, real estate, and researchers alike.