I'm a recent graduate of Columbia University's Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Master's program. I care about cities and how to make them safe, livable, inclusive spaces for work and play. I enjoy working with data to reveal hidden patterns to these ends.
In my spare time, I'm a Twitter vigilante, Instant Pot chef, and mediocre point guard. Email me at dlkraushar@gmail.com if you want to connect!
What can quality-of-life complaints reveal about social friction in gentrifying neighborhoods?
New Yorkers are notorious complainers. Fortunately, 311, the City's non-emergency government services hotline, provides an invaluable platform for airing grievances large and small. While most complaints focus on municipal service requests (repairing potholes, removing snow, etc.), about one third of complaints pertain to bad behavior on the part of fellow New Yorkers - things like playing loud music at night or operating an illegal AirBnB hotel out of a residential building. This subset of 311 calls is a window into the banal, everyday conflicts that inevitably arise in densely inhabited spaces, and can be interpreted as perceptions of violated public norms. This project explores the relationship between neighborly discord and shifting demographics, which brings different conceptions of public life into close contact.
Data wrangling and analysis performed in R; ArcGIS used for spatial analysis and mapping.
