RANDOM QUESTION:
Do yall know of any publicly available databases besides school, crime, and such statistics? I'm doing the final capstone project for this IBM data science thing I mentioned before. I have to build a "business case" using location data/maps from foursquare API and whatever other data i can scrounge up. Most of the public data available i'm not particularly interested in.(Census, FBI, UN, etc)
...that said I could "scrape" web sites for data, manually structure it as a CSV file, then use that as my raw data.
Now what I would like to do is track the income & spending habits of a city's citizens to see how much is spent inside the city vs outside the city. Then drill down to what items are purchased in comparison to the area income. With the focus being on using that analysis as opposed to say housing valuations as an alternative metric for community investment / development.
Racial Disparities in Home Appreciation - Center for American Progress
Racial bias cost: homes in black neighborhoods worth half as much - CNN
The devaluation of assets in black neighborhoods
https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-116-ba04-wstate-perrya-20190620.pdf
"Property Values Drop When Blacks Move in, Because...": Racial and Socioeconomic
(Given its then known how much income the area has monthly and what they purchase. Otherwise folks can easily deny building a shopping/food center in an area when they assume home values reflect raw income.)
Data collection for something like that is a burden without access to options like a banking API, people volunteering income/purchase data, receipt scanner tech, etc. hence why I'm stuck looking for an idea.
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