Madison Chai

  Lead Vancouver's rate of New Building development has plummeted by nearly 90% since 2017, according to City of Vancouver data.    Excel Workbook Link and Explanation  The workbook   includes the original raw data along with the slice that highlights the drastic decrease in issued building permits for New Buildings.       As mentioned previously in Data Update 1, the original dataset contains information on Building Permit Issuances in the City of Vancouver from 2017 to 2024.  I've primarily analyzed the Type of Work column which broadly categorizes the permits into six classifications: Addition/Alteration; Demolition/Deconstruction; New Building; Outdoor Uses (No Buildings Proposed); Salvage and Abatement; and Temporary Building/Structure.       The slice essentially features a pivot table that sums the number of projects within each permit category/"Type of Work" category from the years 2017 to 2024.  Next to ...

What dataset will you use for your final report?  Issued Building Permits  Describe the dataset. What kind of data does it contain?       The 42,708 row dataset is for Building Permit Issuances in the City of Vancouver from 2017 onwards.  The building permits would be for instances such as construction, deconstruction, demolition, and development.  It contains information about application and permit approval timelines; the "Type of Work" the for building permit (e.g. demolitions, additions/alteration, new buildings, etc.); the "Property Use" on a macro scale (e.g. Culture/recreational, Dwelling, Institutional, etc.); the "Specific Use Category" of the building (e.g. Fitness centre, duplex w/ secondary suite, financial institution, etc.); and the building location information. Is there anything about your data that you don't understand? (i.e. what a column heading means). How will you find this out?       For the most part I un...