The above heatmap showing where city parking tickets are most frequently issued is one result of an in-progress project by biology major and urban data enthusiast Jordan Poles. Areas shaded red mark where the tickets fall heaviest, while green areas see a lighter citation rain. Grey areas are not ticket-free — rather, the colored regions represent notable clusters of ticket activity (including Downtown, Montrose, Fourth Ward, Midtown, the Museum District, and the Rice Village).

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Poles has been digging into the numbers with help from the civic-minded programming meetup group SketchCity. The work includes a look at which vehicle makes and years are ticketed most frequently; Poles has also mapped where certain specific parking citation types are most frequently issued.

The data mapped above comes from a city dataset of GPS-tracked tickets issued between July 2014 and March 2016 (with a few gaps). Other parts of Poles’s project uses additional city ticket data from as early as 2012. More maps, interesting correlations, and a boatload of technical details can be found on Poles’s report page for the project.

Image: Jordan Poles

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