With 42 KC evictions per day, civic hackers pinpoint action with data

By Tommy Felts | September 5, 2017

Kansas City can be a leader on housing justice, Tara Raghuveer said. The details are in the data. Examining a Jackson County data set that included 173,720 eviction records spanning 17 years, Raghuveer, a Harvard-educated researcher and Shawnee Mission East High School graduate, confirmed a leading predictor of eviction in Kansas City: race. “It disproportionately…

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Eclipse watch: Drones to help UMKC-led researchers analyze gridlock

By Tommy Felts | August 18, 2017

With all eyes on the sky for Monday’s rare solar eclipse, the heavens will be watching back. A team of volunteer drone pilots, research specialists and emergency management officials plan to use a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles to provide real-time observation and analysis of Kansas City-area traffic at two likely congestion points during the…

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