Neighborhood Economic Indicators

After meeting with Uptown United I was left with the impression that a significant question they're typically wrestling with is 'how are our local businesses doing?'

To that end, I'd like to start exploring ways we can start to answer that question. Some sub-questions that come to mind are:

- Can we infer foot traffic trends (this is counted manually right now)?
- What variables can we look into in order to assess economic health?
- Are there data sources available to this end?
- Can we infer consumer spending/consumption?
- Is there data that Uptown United has that isn't currently part of the open data infrastructure that we can work with them to access?

I'm thinking that these paths eventually lead to some sort of map overlay that we can use to inform Uptown United and other groups interested in this information. Depending on the information being used, perhaps we could design this in a way that's some what geographically portable.

In any event this is just a start. I'd like to brainstorm a bit and see where this goes during project night.

En el issue no se han identificado archivos, pruebas ni puntos de entrada. Empieza revisando las preguntas propuestas con Uptown United, haciendo un inventario de las fuentes disponibles de datos empresariales y open data, y evaluando si se pueden mapear indicadores de afluencia peatonal o gasto. Se considerará terminado cuando haya una fuente de datos acordada, un alcance definido para los indicadores y un plan para una superposición de mapa geográficamente portable.

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