think globally. code locally. making pokemon go a safer space with open crime data
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Think globally.Act locally.
Understanding public safety using local crime data
My background
Developer AdvocateIBM Analytics
MCP, Ph.D.Urban Studies & Planning
You’ve come a long way, baby!
Read my newletter on open data!https://paper.li/rajrsingh/1451661498
Technology maturity curve
open data?
Global issues
S A F E T Y, H U M A N R I G H T S, F O O D S E C U R I T Y, I N C O M E I N E Q U A L I T Y, W
The danger zone
Where to find data
The excellent Socrata API
The excellent Socrata API
Boston crime data
Boston crime data
Text?!?!
Harvesting crime data
Harvesting crime data
Resources• REST API
– http://ibm.biz/opencrimes
• Crime code lookup tables– https://github.com/ibm-cds-labs/open-data/tree/master/
crime
• Harvesting app– https://github.com/ibm-cds-labs/crimeharvest
• My blog– http://ibm.biz/rajrsingh
• TODO: sample app
Lessonslearned
Time’s Up!• About your speaker:
– Name: Raj Singh– Company: IBM Analytics– Email: [email protected]– Social Media: https://twitter.com/rajrsingh – Quick bio: Raj is a Developer Advocate and Open Data
Lead at IBM Cloud Data Services. He specializes in all things geospatial and hacks on analytics in R/dashDB and Spark/iPython notebooks. He's currently driven to make CDS the best place to obtain and exploit comprehensive, curated open data sets for business. Raj pioneered Web mapping-as-a-service in the late 1990s with Syncline, a startup he co-founded.