Detecting Urban Blight in Dallas

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Machine learning can help city planners predict urban blight - a strongly correlated indicator of violence.

Fig. 1: A conceptual diagram of the machine learning workflow utilized in this project.

Fig. 2: Heat maps of Class Activation Maps (CAM) to understand where the model gives more attention in an image

Fig. 3: The explorer in action at the city level, the block, and the parcel unit level

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