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SUBMITTER: Bell S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7437912 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bell Samuel S Marlow Thomas T Wombacher Kai K Hitt Anina A Parikh Neev N Zsom Andras A Frickel Scott S
PloS one 20200819 8
The location of defunct environmentally hazardous businesses like gas stations has many implications for modern American cities. To track down these locations, we present the directoreadr code (github.com/brown-ccv/directoreadr). Using scans of Polk city directories from Providence, RI, directoreadr extracts and parses business location data with a high degree of accuracy. The image processing pipeline ran without any human input for 94.4% of the pages we examined. For the remaining 5.6%, we pro ...[more]