Think Globally. Code Locally. Making Pokemon Go a safer space with open crime data
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Boston is a hotbed of innovation. People are doing extremely cool, amazing things here, starting businesses, creating markets. But the social impact on our region is minimal. My talk is about combining my passion for database tech with a community focus to create demo applications that not only sell product, but also enrich the city. I highlight a location-aware safety app I built with City of Boston open crime data to make Pokemon Go a safer space.
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Think Globally. Code Locally. Making Pokemon Go a safer space with open crime data
- 1. Think globally. Act locally. Understanding public safety using local crime data
- 2. My background Developer Advocate IBM Analytics MCP, Ph.D. Urban Studies & Planning
- 3. You’ve come a long way, baby!
- 4. Read my newletter on open data! https://paper.li/rajrsingh/1451661498
- 5. Technology maturity curve open data?
- 6. 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
- 9. Where to find data
- 11. The excellent Socrata API
- 12. The excellent Socrata API
- 19. 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
- 20. Lessons learned
- 21. Time’s Up! • About your speaker: – Name: Raj Singh – Company: IBM Analytics – Email: rrsingh@us.ibm.com – 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.
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- Been in data for 24 years. Back then we had to create all our own data, using heads-up digitizing tablets with weird little mouse-like devices.
- So excited about open data because used to be that 80% of work was creating data Now we focus on prep and use If we can make that kind of progress in 24 years, the state of government open data in a few years should be amazing. The stage we’re at now is just the beginning of the curve.
- When I say Think globally and act locally, I’m talking about data-based work. Safety, human rights, food security, income inequality, etc. are global issues, but there’s a lot that can be done right here in our backyard using open data. And it’s not just about tech for societal benefit. We can do good and do well at the same time.
- I’ve been looking at crime data for a while, but my interest took on a new intensity when Pokémon Go came out and we started hearing about people luring players into dark alleys and robbing them. Surely data could play a role in helping people avoid these incidents. But it could also be used for so much more: Should I open a store here? If I do, when should it close?
- So I decided I would build an app that let you know when you were heading towards an area that, based on crime data, looked like a bad bet.
- http://us-city.census.okfn.org http://us-city.census.okfn.org/place/sanfrancisco https://data.police.uk/data/ by 2011 lower layer super output area (LSOA) https://data.cityofboston.gov/Public-Safety/Crime-Incident-Reports-August-2015-July-2016-/ry9x-evjv
- Nice standardized UI for the common person to browse, query and visualize data Provides a SQL-like query language for developers
- But it’s only as good as the data cities put in it… No standard for coding No standard for release schedule Varying location accuracy (points, slightly generalized points, blocks, etc)