Insights

Queens holds 36.89% of street trees versus Manhattan’s 9.36%. For NYRP, Tableau showed canopy gaps do not track neighborhood income — so planting should follow equity, not wealth.

On 39,674 NYSED records (140 variables), migrant and ELL students face 3× higher dropout rates, NYC averages 13.2% vs 7.5% elsewhere, and enrollment size is the strongest driver.

With only 20% rating density and almost no low scores, collaborative filtering alone collapses. Enriching the graph with Genre and Director nodes is what makes hybrid scoring work.

On Framingham data, a soft-voting ensemble beat tree and neural models — but still lost to logistic regression (AUC 0.6959). Simpler models win when the signal is linear.