David Tersegno and I compiled Census and CA Environmental Screen Report data to model health outcomes for communities impacted by increased diesel-traffic associated with e-commerce. The visualization below shows the change in density and distribution of warehouses across the state.
We completed our project in April 2022, and in May 2022, LA Times published an Op-Ed by a professor in the Inland Empire on mapping warehouse distribution, highlighting the power and utility of our work (full project details includes data sources, the models we built and next steps:: https://github.com/gigi-codes/warehouse_density)
