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After the basic analysis of the datasets of summer food sites from ArcGIS, I would like to have an overall understanding of the level of activity of the food sites and how does this involvement correlate to the social and economic context. To achieve this goal, I overlapped the factors which will contribute to the activity level in gradient in Photoshop. For instance, the earlier it opens and the longer it lasts, the brighter it will be. 

And then I overlapped the synthesis map together with Allegheny Median Household Income(the brighter the block means the median household income is lower) and school districts.  It is interesting to find that the summer food sites congregate in Woodland Hills and Mckeesport Area. And these two school districts are in the area where the median household income is relatively low.

I think the low household income will initiate the need for summer food sites and the active involvement of schools, churches and organizations will contribute to the high activeness of the summer food sites.