Welcome to Police Blotter Launch April 23 rd 2015 Mark Howe

Brief History William Peduto is elected Mayor of Pittsburgh Proposes community involvement in transition Lots of people volunteered and some become part of the Open Data for Pittsburgh Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Transition Team Meeting Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Time line First meeting Garfield Penn Ave 1/22/2014 Open Data Legislation March 2014 Andy’s Blotter parsing April 2014 capturing data in database Andrew McGill Web Site August 2014 Chief of Police Meeting Nov Police Blotter csv data released 2/5/15 Today Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Real Estate to Blotter County real estate data Looking for data about Sheraden Hey, look, there is Crime data from the city Can these be merged? (Not yet anyway) Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Police Blotter Format is in PDF Not a friendly form for computer processing But wait, Andy has code to parse the PDF Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Sample PDF, oh my! Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Text version PITTSBURGH BUREAU OF POLICE Page 1 of 11 Incident Blotter MONDAY -- 03/02/2015 Sorted by: Zone & Time DISCLAIMER: The City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Police is pleased to share this information as a service to concerned citizens within our community. Please be advised that the data provided is generally based upon initial reports. Further investigation into these matters may, and often does, reveal additional information relevant to the incident. These reports are not a comprehensive list of every police event within the City. The City of Pittsburgh also assumes no responsibility for the use of the information posted on this site. Zone 1 Report Name Incident Time Location Of Occurance Neighborhood Incident Age Gender OFFENSE : block Brighton Rd Central Northside Section Description 9501 Bench Warrant Report Name Incident Time Location Of Occurance Neighborhood Incident Age Gender ARREST 00: block Brighton Rd Central Northside M Section Description 9501 Bench Warrant Report Name Incident Time Location Of Occurance Neighborhood Incident Age Gender OFFENSE :00 Woodland Ave & Pitler St Marshall-Shadeland Section Description 2705 Recklessly Endangering Another Person Reckless Driving 3733 Fleeing or Attempting to Elude Police Officer Report Name Incident Time Location Of Occurance Neighborhood Incident Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

PDF to Map Download PDF Convert to text Load into database Retrieve from database to display on map Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Andrew McGill’s Map Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Learning curve Google Maps Postgresql w/gis Map Markers json AWS (web server and RDB) bootstrap.js MarkerClusterer Address issues Geo – coding GIS And a lot of magic from my Java tool-box Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

GIS Google Address Geo-Coding Allegheny County Address Geo-Coding Service Other GIS services Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015 A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data

First map attempt Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

And now … Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Main Page Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Open Blotter Page Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

By Address Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Something new What other ways are good to display data? Could it be a Heat Map? What? Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015 A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the individual values contained in a matrix are represented as colors.

Heat Map Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Demo Open Pittsburgh Main Page Heat Map Beta Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

What can we do next? Community involvement – What types of other issues can we explore with police and community? – What information is needed for these? – How can we structure interactions with city and community on future projects? Data service from the City – Better addresses – Up to date GIS information – Any other data work we can do with City Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Our next project? Snow plow tracking tracker tracker snow/fusiontables snow/fusiontables We’ve got a year for this one. Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Snow plow tracking Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Fix me! Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

References ovation-performance ovation-performance sburghOpenDataOrdinance.pdf sburghOpenDataOrdinance.pdf Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Resources continued ntation/ ntation/ ntation/javascript/heatmaplayer ntation/javascript/heatmaplayer openpittsburgh.openpittsburghbrigade.org Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Questions What is the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow? ? Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

Hack Night Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015 Meetup Thursday, May 7, :30 PM to 11:45 PM Carnegie Library Lawrenceville

Thank-you Mayor William Peduto Police Chief Cameron McLay Council women Natalia Rudiak Andy Somerville – Ask Pittsburgh Project Leader Andrew McGill – Created “Where’s Bill” when at the PG Tim Condello – Project Manager BNY Mellon and Marine Corp MP Company Commander Laura Meixell – Analytics and Strategy Manager with the City of Pittsburgh Bob Gradeck – Code for America Brigade Captain And Open Pittsburgh Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

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