Sound Data Stories demystifies complex data to help guide urban planning in the Puget Sound Region. Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) data staff produce this site. PSRC also has a general-interest blog about regional issues.
Over the past several years, the PSRC data science team has deployed several Shiny apps that create interactive web data visualizations to inform regional urban planning.
Women have transportation needs that have not historically been met in urban environments. The regional transportation system was traditionally designed around the need to quickly get to work at central locations... » Read More
The Puget Sound Region has about 600,000 people who identify as Asian Alone and more than 35,000 people who identify as Native Hawaiian... » Read More
In 2020 when we were all starting to work at home, the PSRC data team formed a working group to learn from each other how Household Travel Survey Data could be used to inform urban planning policy. We have... » Read More
In the data science world there has often been a debate on whether R or Python is the better language. The debate may be less heated now given that recent technologies have allowed better integration of both languages within teams... » Read More
In the Seattle region, sky-rocketing housing prices, a legacy of discriminatory housing policies, and new transportation infrastructure, have all coalesced together to have the potential to displace people from their homes.
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) and the City... » Read More
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