Using Tableau and Google Map API for Understanding the Impact of Walkability on Dublin City

Abstract: In this article, we explore two effective means to communicate the concept of walkability - 1) visualization, and 2) descriptive statistics. We introduce the concept of walkability as measuring the quality of an urban space based on the distance needed to walk from that space to a range of different social, environmental, and economic amenities. We use Dublin city as a worked example and explore quantification and visualization of walkability of various areas of the city. We utilize the Google Map API and Tableau to visualize the less walkable areas across Dublin city and using WLS regression, we assess the effects of unwalkability on house prices in Dublin, thus quantifying the importance of walkable areas from an economic perspective.