As soon as we have defined the basic requirements, we need to explore the data layers that are potentially useful and relevant for our analysis. The training dataset contains a large number of datasets, and the most relevant among them are listed in the following table:
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Requirement |
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Potential relevance |
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Safety |
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Hurricane evacuation zones are the areas of the city that may need to be evacuated due to life- and safety-related threats from a hurricane storm surge. |
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Hurricane inundation zones are the areas of worst-case storm surge inundation. | |
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The raster created in the Creating heat maps with the Heatmap plugin section of Chapter 5, Answering Questions with Density Analysis, that shows the spatial density of registered noise complaints might be useful for potential assessment for public safety. | |
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Connectivity |
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Locations of subway entrances... |