Think globally. Act locally. Understanding public safety using local crime data

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My background Developer Advocate IBM Analytics MCP, Ph.D. Urban Studies & Planning

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You’ve come a long way, baby!

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Read my newletter on open data! https://paper.li/rajrsingh/1451661498

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Technology maturity curve open data?

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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

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The danger zone

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Where to find data

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The excellent Socrata API

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The excellent Socrata API

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Boston crime data

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Boston crime data Text?!?!

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Harvesting crime data

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Harvesting crime data

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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

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Lessons learned

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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.