think globally. code locally. making pokemon go a safer space with open crime data

Think globally.Act locally.

Understanding public safety using local crime data

My background

Developer AdvocateIBM Analytics

MCP, Ph.D.Urban Studies & Planning

You’ve come a long way, baby!

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

Technology maturity curve

open data?

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

The danger zone

Where to find data

The excellent Socrata API

The excellent Socrata API

Boston crime data

Boston crime data

Text?!?!

Harvesting crime data

Harvesting crime data

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

Lessonslearned

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.