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Yeah, that's a really important distinction to keep in mind. I work a lot with crime data, and so people say things like "Oh, so you know all the best places to
by dougmccune 16y ago
Yeah, that's a really important distinction to keep in mind. I work a lot with crime data, and so people say things like "Oh, so you know all the best places to find drugs", when in reality what I know is the best places to get caught. Where people are committing crimes and where they are getting arrested may or may not be the same.
- marchdown 16y agoIs any of that data available to the general public?
- dougmccune 16y agoFor San Francisco all the crime data is published (well, other than some sensitive data like the locations of rapes). datasf.org has a listing of all the geospatial data available for SF. A lot of other cities have their own data repositories. Washington DC has one of the best (http://data.dc.gov/ http://data.dc.gov/) and New York has a good catalog as well (http://www.nyc.gov/html/datamine/html/data/data.shtml http://www.nyc.gov/html/datamine/html/data/data.shtml).