City General Plans Topic Modeling and Mapping

Project Overview

This project was a collaboration between Catherine Brinkley, professor in the UC Davis Department of Human Ecology, and DataLab. Catherine sought to understand the general plan documents for the cities in the state of California through topic modeling. Catherine and her team assembled the many general plan documents and DataLab staff performed a topic modeling analysis on the text of the documents and joined the resulting table to a spatial vector data containing city boundaries to allow the dataset to be easily mapping in a GIS.

DataLab Contact

• Carl Stahmer (technical lead)