Methods: The first thing we did is use the data from the MA Emergency Assistance Shelter Report. In its Appendix A, there is a list and table of the total families. But since the report was on PDF we used an open-source tool called Tabula to get the data out from the report. After that we could import data to the tableau and create some charts and graphs based on the family. There is a small problem when we extract these data, which is the first three towns–Acton, Amherst, Andover– their total number is on the third column instead of every town else which was on the second column. So we made a little bit of adjustment on this. After we cleaned the data, we were finally able to import this csv file into tableau.  And we got some interesting findings which we discussed for the first time. So right here when we put data into the map, we found out that a lot of the resources and facility are located on the east side…