Projects

Recent Projects

This section showcases brief descriptions of my recent projects, providing a glimpse into my work. For in-depth details and access to all my projects, follow the links to my GitHub page, the central repository for my comprehensive project portfolio.

Underserved populations are defined by the EDA as including Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and other persons of color.

EDA

U.S. Economic Development Administration (.gov)

Social Planning: Visualizations speak loud!

Gaps in Equitable and Inclusive Growth

Highlighting the need for equitable growth and inclusive development moving forward, this project highlights the present stress on underserved populations in the Richmond region and shows the present situation in the city for the underserved populations. It analyzes the issue from different lenses like –

Data Science Applications in Social planning: Community Sentiments

Sentiment Analysis using NLP

Discover the pulse of the community with our project that delves into the sentiments expressed in public comments on the PlanRVA’s Public Engagement and Outreach Report. This endeavor leverages cutting-edge Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to classify opinions into supportive, opposed, or skeptical sentiments. Our analysis navigates through the rich tapestry of public feedback on the ConnectRVA 2045 Long-Range Transportation Plan, offering a unique lens into the community’s perspective on transportation development in Richmond, VA.

The main challenge in citizen participation projects isn’t to collect citizens’ input: it’s to analyse it.

Citizen Lab

"History will see this as the residential commodification era, in which housing provision seemed to lose all contact between supply and demand of housing as a utility and simply focused on supply and demand of investment — and that is worrying."

Peter Wynne Rees

Professor of Places and City Planning at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London

Real Estate forecast and Social Planning: Forecasting rising housing prices

Housing Price Forecasting

This project forecasts the Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) across the Richmond Region, providing a comprehensive estimate of real housing prices by ZIP code. Leveraging advanced forecasting model Facebook Prophet, the project not only forecasts future housing prices but also assesses model accuracy and growth potential across the Richmond region.

Environmental Planning: Usage of Satellite Imagery

Wildfire Risk Assessment

Implemented using the Google Earth Engine platform and Python libraries such as Folium for visualization, this project involves the usage of satellite imagery from past 20 years, to identify most wildfire prone locations in the region.

“From coast to coast, the nation is facing a growing threat of wildfire induced by climate change, including from the smoke that can harm people hundreds of miles away”

Michael S. Regan

EPA Administrator

The socially vulnerable are more susceptible before, during, and after a catastrophic event, according to the evidence

Greater Impact: How Disasters Affect People of Low Socioeconomic Status, n.

Health Outcomes and Social Planning: Social Vulnerabilities

Analyzing the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19

This research paper explores how COVID-19 has exposed and further exacerbated social inequalities in the US, with a focus on how racial disparities and economic disparities have disproportionately affected the people of the US. The paper, through a county-level quantitative spatial analysis, examines the specific incidence of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations highlighting the need for social change.

The challenge is significant, yet we find ourselves at a pivotal moment where our potential knows no bounds!

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