Repo directory structure

[jayqi]

As part of cleaning up the repository, we should determine a directory structure.

I personally would like something a little flatter than what we already have, so that people can see all of the datasets at a glance.

So in the root we have:

• README.md -- basic info about repo, issue tracker, tell people to look at wiki for more info
• [datasetname]/ -- directories that contain the relevant files to the dataset
  • README.md -- basic info about that dataset
  • cleaned_[datasetname].csv -- cleaned up data (but without any processing that would require interpretation)
  • raw/ -- subdirectory that contains raw data files and copies of FOIA correspondence
• [datasetname]/
  • ... (same)
• [datasetname]/
  • ... (same)
• context/ -- basically the same as what we currently have, extra data files for contextual information. We should try to digitize everything into a machine readable format for things that aren't already.

Naming is discussed separately in issue #46

Migrating files associated with shootings-append.csv discussed in issue #50

[evanwsun]

That sounds fine to me, at least for the moment. Where do we plan to put the other data for now?

[jayqi]

Working on this here.

https://github.com/jayqi/shootings-data/tree/reorganization

For now, I'm planning on just removing shootings-append.csv and the individual CRID files. Those will still be available by going back to an earlier commit.

[jayqi]

Working implementation with pull #54