A Look at Philadelphia: Part Two

Justin Cocco
Towards Data Science
7 min readOct 9, 2020

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In the previous series, Philadelphia was looked at in terms of poverty, emphasizing the relationship between demographics and poverty. Now, let’s look at how the level of poverty can characterize the Poverty within Philadelphia. Furthermore, once the level of poverty has been characterized, an attempt to balance the quantity of those in poverty with the severity of poverty within a given zip code will be performed. The hope is to build a model that can capture the city’s areas that may require additional resources and assistance.

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