Areas With Highest Trash Complaints Don’t Have Highest Rat Sightings
For our project, we wanted to take a closer look at what causes rat population growth and explore whether there is a link between trash accumulation and an increase in rat sightings.
Group members: Cristal De La Cruz, Stelli Tavera, Jehmehl Fair, Koorosh Nabatian (Egan, Seminar 3, 2020)
For our project, we wanted to take a closer look at what causes rat population growth and explore whether there is a link between trash accumulation and an increase in rats..
We hypothesized that if food availability increases rat populations then neighborhoods with higher amounts of trash accumulation would have higher numbers of rats. We used data on the assumption that rat complaints correlated to where rat populations are located. We analyzed that data by zip codes to find that zip codes with most rats were in Brooklyn and most trash complaints were in the Bronx.
