Hospital Data

This project explores and maps hospital-level data from various sources (CMS & HIFLD), presented in a Quarto document. It demonstrates the application of GIS techniques using Python libraries to analyze and visualize data. Key methods include acquiring data from APIs, geocoding addresses into coordinates, calculating geospatial distances, working with shapefiles to define geographic boundaries, merging datasets with fuzzy matching to resolve address inconsistencies, and creating interactive maps with Folium.

US Map

Maryland Maps

Baltimore Map

Hospitals within 15 miles of downtown Baltimore