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Preprint: Seeing Neglect

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A preprint on measuring how much public aerial and street-level imagery can predict future property code violations.

Key points

  • This is a preprint and has not been peer reviewed.
  • The paper studies whether public imagery contains predictive signal for future property code violations.
  • The manuscript is submitted for journal review; the public PDF is the author manuscript, not a publisher-formatted article.

Preprint / not peer reviewed. We have posted the author manuscript for Seeing Neglect: Measuring the Predictive Value of Public Aerial and Street-Level Imagery for Property Code Violations.

The paper asks a practical question behind DirtSignal's work: how much can public visual evidence around a property tell us about future code-enforcement risk, and where does that signal complement the public records themselves?

This version is shared as a preprint. It has not been peer reviewed, accepted, copy-edited, typeset, or published by a journal. If a final version is published later, this page will link to the formal version of record.

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