REPORTING ON LEAD CONTAMINATION - A guide for journalists and community members

That allowed As part of an explainer that ran with the of the most effective ways to protect child’s levels are above 3.5 micrograms me to compare the much higher percent- investigation, I outlined the results of my people from lead exposure is to cap of lead per deciliter of blood, the point ages of children with elevated levels in tests, the average margin of error, and contaminated soil with cl. [...] ant buildings in the city, and came with The database is searchable by city and sources a street index, keys, and legends that by business, and includes reports that explained minute details such as the type detail clean-up efforts, inspections, of material used to construct a building and the history of the parcel use. [...] # Add a constant to the independent variable The goal of linear regression is to find the best-fitting straight line through your data X = sm.add_constant(data[‘SoilLeadConcentration’]) # Inde- points that minimizes the differences between the observed values and the values pendent variable predicted by the linear model. [...] Mathematically, the influence of a point on the predicted value is inversely proportional to some power of the distance from the point to the • To improve the visual interpretation of your results, adjust the layer’s symbology. [...] You can manually enter the coor- In a new HTML file, include the Mapbox GL JS and CSS files by adding the following dinates, use the current extent of the map canvas, or select the extent of another layer.