What’s your quality-of-life index? Data viz site PlaceILive has the answer

Is there any sort of correlation between the concentration of unemployed people and liquor stores in Brooklyn? You can now judge for yourself with the data visualizations below.

A company called PlaceILive marked International Open Data Day by launching a platform that leverages city data to assign quality-of-life scores to parts of each city. The idea is that you can begin to evaluate a place without even visiting it.
PlaceILive ran some Brooklyn maps for us to give a sense of some of the datasets it has available.
Overlaying multiple datasets, PlaceILive computes a quality-of-life score for addresses in the borough. This reporter’s spot in Crown Heights got a 67, for example. If he lived at the coworking space we use in Dumbo, however, it’d go up to 75, according to the site.
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It’s similar in some respects to Walk Score, which assesses the walkability of a given address as a proxy for quality of life.
Here are some visualizations of Brooklyn created by PlaceILive, which is based in Lithuania. If you want dig deep into how the site assesses Brooklyn block by block, check out its methodology page.

Unemployment rate. (Visualization by PlaceILive)

Concentration of families that speak only English. (Visualization by PlaceILive)

Annual income. (Visualization by PlaceILive)

Liquor stores. (Visualization by PlaceILive)