1. Welcome to Police Blotter Launch April 23 rd 2015 Mark Howe

2. 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

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

4. 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 13 2014 Police Blotter csv data released 2/5/15 Today Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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 2.0 00:29 1500 block Brighton Rd Central Northside 15036134 Section Description 9501 Bench Warrant Report Name Incident Time Location Of Occurance Neighborhood Incident Age Gender ARREST 00:29 1500 block Brighton Rd Central Northside 15036134 25 M Section Description 9501 Bench Warrant Report Name Incident Time Location Of Occurance Neighborhood Incident Age Gender OFFENSE 2.0 01:00 Woodland Ave & Pitler St Marshall-Shadeland 15036149 Section Description 2705 Recklessly Endangering Another Person. 3736 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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system

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

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

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

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

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

18. 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_map

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

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

21. 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

22. Our next project? Snow plow tracking http://pittsburghpa.gov/snow/ http://pittsburghpa.gov/snow/snow-plow- tracker http://pittsburghpa.gov/snow/snow-plow- tracker http://city.temeda.com/api/cities/pittsburgh- snow/fusiontables http://city.temeda.com/api/cities/pittsburgh- snow/fusiontables We’ve got a year for this one. Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

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

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

25. References http://pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/transition http://pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/transition/inn ovation-performance http://pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/transition/inn ovation-performance http://pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/release?id=32 55 http://pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/release?id=32 55 http://apps.pittsburghpa.gov/cis/ProposedPitt sburghOpenDataOrdinance.pdf http://apps.pittsburghpa.gov/cis/ProposedPitt sburghOpenDataOrdinance.pdf http://pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/gis/gis-data Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

26. Resources continued http://pittsburghpa.gov/dcp/gis/gis-data https://developers.google.com/maps/docume ntation/ https://developers.google.com/maps/docume ntation/ https://developers.google.com/maps/docume ntation/javascript/heatmaplayer https://developers.google.com/maps/docume ntation/javascript/heatmaplayer openpittsburgh.openpittsburghbrigade.org http://www.codeforamerica.org/ Twitter @OpenPGH Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

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

28. Hack Night Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015 Meetup Thursday, May 7, 2015 6:30 PM to 11:45 PM Carnegie Library Lawrenceville

29. 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

30. Contacts You can send your comments to – email email – Twitter Twitter Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015

31. QR Link Code for America - Pittsburgh Brigade Mark Howe April 2015