This repository holds the data, processing code, and source files for an article on the LWCF. Visualizations analyze local grant amounts by US county and review the impact of LWCF grants in New England.
Key Repository Links:
- "A Local Look at the LWCF" article: includes a write-up of the LWCF, an interactive map with LWCF state grant program dollars by US county, and highlights in New England
- New England Data Analysis Jupyter Notebook: includes visualizations for LWCF state grant program funding for the six New England states
- Data Prep Jupyter Notebook: includes the steps to clean and combine datasets for the interactive map with LWCF grant value by county
Original datasets, which are saved in a /Data folder, retain any original license and use policy under which they were released. Sources for datasets are noted below. All other work in this repository falls under the GPL v2.0 software license. Other sources are noted where possible.
- LWCF Grants List 1965-2011: Investigate West
- County map data: US Census Bureau