The Client, The Problem, The Specifics: Lady Gaga is looking to move to a city more aligned with her poli8cal views. Since she’s an advocate of the LGBT movement and a
supporter of the arts, she wants to move to San
Francisco. The problem is, she doesn’t know where
she’d want to live in this city. She has some specific requests: to live near
inspira8onal places as well as places where she can
perform. Maintaining health is important to her so she asked to be near places to exercise. Due to her high profile, she needs to live
somewhere more secluded, but in areas with other
young people. She wants to stay away from industrial
areas and freeways. She may have children in the future so she’d like to be near
private schools.
Methods Descrip9on: In order to find the best possible loca8ons for Lady Gaga to move, we performed a suitability analysis using vector analysis and network analysis. We first used the vector analysis
to iden8fy the best possible loca8ons to live in the city based on loca8on of parks, bike routes, private schools, and neighborhood popula8ons. We gave each constraint and opportunity a different weight
depending on its importance to Lady Gaga. ALer combining the constraints and opportuni8es maps, we were able to iden8fy best-‐suited areas for Lady Gaga. We compared the map to those corresponding areas in the city and immediately ruled out places not ideally suited for Lady Gaga like the stadium. We then
looked for listed homes in the most suitable areas (suitability score of 6+). We chose 7 homes in these areas to do a network analysis around, seeing which homes were closest to loca8ons where she could perform, art museums and good Italian food. For the network analysis, we did an individual service-‐areas-‐analysis for clubs, museums, and Italian restaurants with 1 minute intervals up to 10 minutes. We unioned the service
area layers to create one suitability analysis of the service areas. Based on this analysis, we’re able to see the most suitable home based on their proximity to Lady Gaga's desirable loca8ons. There was only one home
that fell in the most suitable area.
Conclusion: Based on suitability analyses using vector and service area
analysis, the most suitable home for Lady Gaga in San Francisco is 196 Avila St San Francisco, CA 94123. Out of the seven homes we found for sale in the city, this was the only home located in our
highest suitability area.
Museums Clubs/Venues Italian Restaurants Final Suitability
+ + =
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Total Opportuni9es Total Constraints Suitability Map Weights
Opportuni9es: Parks (+3)
Private Schools (+1) Bike Lanes (+1) Seclusion (+2)
Constraints: Industrial Zones (-‐3)
Freeways (-‐1) High Amount of Older
Residents (-‐2)
Gaga’s New Residence: The Most
Suitable House!
Acknowledgements: We obtained data for the vector and network analyses from Data SF (http://datasf.org/) and
San Francisco Government (http://gispub02.sfgov.org). We got the
housing informa8on from (www.yelp.com). Address of highest
rated Dance clubs and Italian Restaurants in S.F.
(h]p://www.marcusmillichap.com/) Address of proper8es on sale in San
Francisco Network Analysis from Network Dataset
analysis_net_db.zip in Lab 10