By Christine Zhang

The Baltimore Sun analyzed data on the ebb and flow of vacant buildings between Feb. 2019 and Oct. 2019 for an Oct. 18, 2019 story titled "Baltimore is furiously knocking down vacant houses — but can’t keep up as new ones go empty".

The Sun's findings and analysis are available in the "analysis" markdown file in this repository: 02_analysis.md. The data was cleaned and pre-processed prior to analysis. For more information, see 01_processing.md.

If you'd like to run the code yourself in R, you can download the R Markdown files 01_processing.Rmd and 02_analysis.Rmd along with the data in the input folder. Note the parcel boundaries files were too large to be uploaded into the input folder; they can be found on the City of Baltimore's Open GIS site.

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There are many angles to explore with this data, beyond just the ones we looked into for our story.

Have something to contribute? Send us a pull request or contact us on Twitter @baltsundata or via email.

You can also fork a copy of this repo to your own account.

All code in this repository is available under the MIT License. The data files are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.