https://github.com/fgregg/commerce-types

Clustering of Commerical Mix
https://github.com/fgregg/commerce-types

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Clustering of Commerical Mix

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fgregg/commerce-types
• Owner: fgregg
• Created: 2012-08-23T01:25:21.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-08-23T01:38:56.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T09:55:46.224Z (3 months ago)
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commerce-types

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Can we usefully characterize a commercial center by the composition of businesses?

For a four block segments of commercial zoned areas, we can get a count of the different types of businesses. 

This count could come from the [google places API](https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types#table2) 

or [Business Licenses](https://data.cityofchicago.org/Community-Economic-Development/Business-Licenses/r5kz-chrr), and 

other sources? 

If we had counts for a large sample of these four block segments, we could attempt to find a set of latent classes or factors

that we can use to characterize these areas.

This could be the first step of a project that looked at the ecological changes of commercial mix.

Relevant work: 

[Terry Nichol Clark's Scene Project](http://newcity.com/2008/01/10/bohemian-rhapsody-university-of-chicago-profs-study-the-migration-of-hipsters-and-other-urban-phenomena/#more-5819) 

where U of C researchers characterized zipcodes based on commercial compilations of yellow page data.