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Working with publicly available data on Atlanta Police Department's "Crime Data Downloads" site at http://www.atlantapd.org/crimedatadownloads.aspx

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Overview

Code for automatically downloading data from Atlanta Police Department's "Crime Data Downloads" site

Notes

The data download process is documented in the R Markdown file /apd-crime-data.Rmd. This file is an "R Notebook" (similar to a Python Notebook), and optimized for use in RStudio, version 1.0 and later

Next Steps

  • Work with APD to regularly publish this data into a true open data portal (like Socrata) for easy access
  • Set up scheduling to detect when new data uploaded onto the APD site, and automatically post into the above mentioned open data portal

Following the above steps will make this data much easier to access for other transparency / open data projects, e.g. Data For Democracy's "USA Dashboard"

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Working with publicly available data on Atlanta Police Department's "Crime Data Downloads" site at http://www.atlantapd.org/crimedatadownloads.aspx

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