Get data from the crime map
Project description
Get data from the NYC Crime Map, and save them as geojson and CSV files.
Getting data I have already saved
If you just want to get the data in geojson or CSV format, go to http://dada.pink/nyc-crime-map-data/.
Running the program
If you want to run the program, perhaps to get the most recent data, you can run the program. I present a couple ways of doing this.
Installing from PyPI
You can install the package like so
sudo pip install nyc-crime-map
and then run it like so.
nyc-crime-map
A data directory will be created inside your working directory, and you’ll find the results here.
cat nyc-crime-map/data/02378420399528461352-17772055697785505571.geojson cat nyc-crime-map/data/02378420399528461352-17772055697785505571.csv
Running from the checked-out repository
Perhaps you don’t have pip installed; in that case, you can do this.
git clone git://github.com/tlevine/nyc-crime-map.git --recursive # Delete the cached data. rm nyc-crime-map/data/all_results/* # Run the program. cd nyc-crime-map ./nyc-crime-map # View the results. cat nyc-crime-map/data/02378420399528461352-17772055697785505571.geojson cat nyc-crime-map/data/02378420399528461352-17772055697785505571.csv
More about the data
The data are stored in two tables.
02378420399528461352-11853667273131550346
02378420399528461352-17772055697785505571
The latter of these tables contains a “CR” field for the crime type; the former does not.
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