Building Permit Data from DataSF
Another dataset that the city of San Francisco makes publicly available is the Department of Building Inspection’s monthly permit report. This report contains all the building permit activity within the city, from permits to add new condos to inspections of sprinkler systems. We took one full year of data, from September 2008 to August 2009, [...]
Crime in San Francisco’s Urban Renewal Area
We’ve been using SpatialKey to look at San Francisco data downloaded from DataSF.org. There are mountains of interesting data available for San Francisco, but the crime data from the SFPD is one of the most interesting datasets. When you load in the crime data you instantly see some powerful images, which show the intense concentration [...]
Visualizing SFPD’s “Operation Safe Schools”
The San Francisco Police Department has recently launched a new initiative to fight drug dealing near schools. As outlined in this article in the San Francisco Chronicle last Thursday, the police department is targeting drug dealers within 1,000 feet of San Francisco schools who are dealing heroin, crack, or methamphetamine during school hours. These particular [...]
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