Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Data sources
3. Tools used
4. Lessons learned
5. Contributing

Overview

Seattle (the repo) aims to make it easy to understand what sort of changes are happening in your neighborhood. Change seems to be acclerating in Seattle; we want to find out if those changes have had a measureable impact on the type and frequency of 911 Emergency responses within the city limits.

We are aware that Socrata provides a similar (and more robust) service, but it requires some effort to parse and doesn't immediately provide answers to the questions we intend to answer.

Credit goes to Joel 'Grandpa' Stanner for the idea.

Data sources

1. Seattle Fire Real-Time 911
2. data.seattle.gov
3. Zillow Neighborhood data

Tools used

Seattle was written using the following:

• Amazon EC2
• Amazon RDS
• Mapbox
• Postgresql/PostGIS
• Postico
• Pyramid

Lessons learned

1. Don't geocode.
2. Embrace the merge conflict.
3. Somehow pair programming seems to work.
4. Naps are under-rated.
5. I should not be in charge of writing README's.

Contributing

We worked on this for a week. There are no hard and fast rules about what you can or can't do. Becoming a contributor is as easy as opening a Pull Request 😉

Feedback is welcome and encouraged. What did we do right? Wrong? Inefficiently? Open a ticket, give us some advice, and Constantine will send you cupcakes. Promise.

Thanks!

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See Also

• Predicting and plotting crime in Seattle