- Eric Anderson - [email protected]
- Justin Reagle - [email protected]
- Simon Schueller - [email protected]
- Playground Equipment - This data set compiled by the Department of Public Works lists each piece of playground equipment in Pittsburgh, the park it is located in, its manufacturer, whether it is ADA accessible, and location information.
- Police Arrest Data - This data set published by the City of Pittsburgh lists documented arrests made in Pittsburgh, the type of arrest, and the neighborhood where the arrest was made.
- Housing Prices - This data set, collected by the American Community Survey, lists the amount of homes in certain prices ranges throughout each neighboorhood in the Pittsburgh area
In order to determine the best neighborhood in Pittsburgh, we chose three data sets containing regional data and analyzed them. The data sets we chose contained information about housing costs, playground equipment, and police arrest. We believe that these three metrics were a good representation of a variety of important factors. Unique scoring systems were defined for the data in each data set, in order to assign a score to each individual neighborhoods. The scores for each data set were then normalized to values between 0 and 1 and combined with equal weighting to determine the neighborhood with the highest score. The neighborhood with the highest score was then declared the best neighborhood in Pittsburgh. After all of our calculations, we found that Squirrel Hill South is the best neighborhood in Pittsburgh.