Charlottesville Regional Data Dashboard

README updated 2026-05-11

This repo hosts the R code to collect and prepare data and to create the equity dashboard for regional indicators for the Charlottesville region.

Charlottesville Regional Data Dashboard

dashboard-update-workflow.RMD

Data workflow for collecting and preparing data for dashboard. This RMD file runs R scripts found in /scripts and saves data to specific dashboard year /data folder.

/scripts

Script files are run from dashboard-update-workflow.RMD. Each script file contains a TOC of included measures. Scripts included:

• acs5-blockgroup-data.R: blockgroup-level variables from US census ACS 5-year estimates
• acs5-county-data.R: county-level variables from US census ACS 5-year estimates
• acs5-tract-data.R: tract-level variables from US census ACS 5-year estimates
• alice-county-data.R: (ALICE)[https://www.unitedforalice.org/] data
• helpers.R: helper text for app interface
• life-exp-county-data.R: life expectancy county-level data
• magdist-data.R: magisterial district geometry data
• parks-osm-data.R: local park polygons data
• schools-data.R: school location and attendance zone geometry data
• seg-county-tract-data.R: segregation measures for county and tract level

This folder also includes files required for the data workflow:

• regional_tractnames.csv: defines tract names for all localities included in app
• prettytable_data_sources.xlsx: metadata descriptions for all measures in app

/data

All collected and cleaned data are saved in the specific update year folder in /data (not currently in Github repo). These include:

• acs5_blockgroup.RDS
• acs5_county.RDS
• acs5_tract.RDS
• alice.RDS
• county_life_exp.RDS
• mcd_sf.geojson:
• parks_OSM_sf.geojson
• sabselem_sf.geojson
• sabshigh_sf.geojson
• schools_sf.geojson
• seg_county.RDS
• seg_tract.RDS
• app_data_[dashboard year].Rdata

/cville-region

Files to create app

• app.R: the file to create the app
• cville-atlas-template.html: HTML app template file
• deploy.R
• www/app_data_[dashboard year].qs2: data for app generated from datacode