In 2015, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a law that expanded the areas in which sex offenders are banned from residing. The law prohibited any from living within 1,000 ft. of a school, up from from 300 ft. To show the impact of the new restrictions, I focused on Providence. I mapped all the schools, as well as the old and new boundaries using QGIS. I wrote a scraping program to grab the database of sex offenders from the state parole board's website, and used Google to geocode their addresses. I plotted these coordinates on the map, which revealed that about 2/3 of the offenders would have to move. In addition to the new boundaries, the map highlighted industrial areas to illustrate how few areas for residing remained.
Technologies used: QGIS, Photoshop, PHP, Google Maps API, jQuery, Javascript, CSS, HTML