Payday Lending

Interactive pieces to payday lending story.

Data

• Zipcode shapes from the US Census Tiger Lines.
• Percentage below poverty line by zipcode from US Census Fact Finder.
• MN Payday lender locations from MN Department of Commerce Small Lender Licensee List and Industrial Loan List.

Data Processing

• In order to combine the CSV and MN Zip Shapefile, used QGIS and Mapbox's helpful instructions.
• Payday lender locations were geocoded from address in bulk, and some manually found.
• To create a JSON(P) file for use in visualization (uploaded to AWS), run the following: csvjson data/payday-lenders-mn-v4.csv > data/payday-lenders-mn-v4.json; echo "payday_lenders_callback(" > data/payday-lenders-mn-v4.jsonp; cat data/payday-lenders-mn-v4.json >> data/payday-lenders-mn-v4.jsonp; echo ");" >> data/payday-lenders-mn-v4.jsonp;
• To work on the tileset, link it up to your Mapbox projects using an absolute page (pwd will help).
  • Project: ln -s {PATH_TO_THIS_REPO}/data-processing/tiles/payday-lending ~/Documents/MapBox/project/payday-lending
  • Data: mkdir ~/Documents/MapBox/data/; ln -s {PATH_TO_THIS_REPO}/data/tl_2010_27_zcta510-below-povertyline.zip ~/Documents/MapBox/data/tl_2010_27_zcta510-below-povertyline.zip
• Tiles uploaded to Mapbox for hosting.

Visualization

• Go to visualizations/index.html in a browser.