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GSoc 2013 Proposal #2

Open takhan opened 11 years ago

takhan commented 11 years ago

Hi,

My name is Tauseef and I was interested in working on an API for crime data. However, I was a little confused about what to look at as a reference for making this into a more concrete proposal

mick commented 11 years ago

Hello,

We dont have an existing crime API so this would be a new project for us. You should start with some research of what has been been done and what you might want to reuse / add to that project. Check out Chicago Tribune Crime API: https://github.com/newsapps/chicagocrime bringing that to other cities, tools that process common crime data formats into something usable by that api could be good.

BenHuiHui commented 11 years ago

Hi My name is Hui from National University of Singapore. I would like to participate in the data matching. But I am not quite clear what it is about. Is it about data mining or other things? Whether can I find a reference so that I can write concrete proposal?

ahsancse commented 11 years ago

Hi Mick Thompson,

I am Ahsan Shamsudeen from Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I am willing to participate in GSoC this year . I have gone through all the 4 projects and found open 311 as most interesting.I appreciate code of America's Initiative to reimagining the U.S for the 21st century. I have gone through http://codeforamerica.org/ ,http://open311.org , http://311.fm and understood the scenario.I believe that I will be able to make a contribution.So, if you can guide me how to start with open 311 , it will be a great help for me to move on with this project.

Thanks, Ahsan

mick commented 11 years ago

@qinghe1992 Its about providing a tool that matches 2 or more datasets on a a set of columns.

@ahsancse the http://open311.org website has a reference for the API. A really easy to use library for working with open311 apis is three I've updated 311fm with more info on getting started.

ahsancse commented 11 years ago

Thank you.I'll go through the API's .