Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge and express our gratitude towards the following individuals for their contributions toward our project:
We would like to thank the L.A. Times for making this dataset accessible. Special thanks to Professor Wendy Perla Kurtz for the wonderful guidance and training that allowed us to employ and use various digital mapping tools.
Thank you to Travis Lee, Carolanne Link, and Sal Santa Ana from the Disabilities and Computing Program at UCLA for your insight on making our website accessible.
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