Marin Smoke Detector Adoption
-A regional analysis of the adoption rate for smoke detectors in the forested areas of Marin County, California. This map shows the percentage of homes in forested areas that have smoke detectors using data from the ArcGIS GeoEnrichment Service.
+Voting Precincts, Santa Cruz County
+Each election the Santa Cruz County Elections Department must consolidate regular precincts into a smaller number of voting precincts. Each person who registers to vote is assigned a regular precinct based on the address they enter on the voter registration form. Each election has several different ballot types based on the different jurisdictions that are up for an election. In order to reduce the number of different ballot types, if two or more adjacent regular precincts share all the same items on the ballot, then they are consolidated into a single voting precinct. These voting precincts are used for tabulation and reporting. A layer with 720 regular precincts was provided together with a cross-reference table listing the 138 voting precincts that need to be consolidated with a list of their constituent regular precincts. Using Python and the arcpy api, this data was wrangled into a format where it can easily be joined to the regular precincts layer and the features were dissolved to create 297 voting precints.