Households/Jobs synthesizing & building_id assigning

[lisalan520]

Good afternoon!

In this example, what tool/model can be used to: 1.synthesize households&jobs and 2. assign building_id to synthesized datasets? Thanks!

Lisa

[fscottfoti]

For quick and dirty work you might want to look at

http://conveyal.com/blog/2014/04/08/aggregate-disser/

[lisalan520]

@fscottfoti It looks great. Thanks! Is there any similar tool in Python?

[fscottfoti]

We started on a similar tool here but haven't officially released it. Generally it does the census stuff well, but doesn't support the assignment to buildings or anything like that. It's somewhat under-documented at this time as well.

https://github.com/synthicity/synthpop

[lisalan520]

Got it. Have tried the synthpop tool and it worked well (one URL for FIPS might need to be updated) Look forward to your next release! Thanks!