Extract Features from Building Permit Data

[jasonasher]

Start with the Building Permit data in the /Data Sets/Building Permits/ folder in Dropbox. Write a script that uses this data to produce a feature data table for the number of new building permits issued in the last 4 weeks.

You can find the data format and examples on the Feature Dataset Format tab in this document

Input: CSV files with data for each given year

Output: A CSV file with

• 1 row for each building permit type and subtype, and each week, year, and census block
• The dataset should include the following columns:

feature_id: The ID for the feature, in this case, "building_permits_issued_last_4_weeks" feature_type: Building permit type feature_subtype: Building permit subtype year: The ISO-8601 year of the feature value week: The ISO-8601 week number of the feature value census_block_2010: The 2010 Census Block of the feature value value: The value of the feature, i.e. the number of new building permits of the specified types and subtypes issued in the given census block during the previous 4 weeks starting from the year and week above.

When you are finished Submit a pull request on GitHub (or upload your scripts) Upload any files to Dropbox

Need more information? Flag Jason or Elizabeth, or ask your question in the comments below and we'll respond as soon as we can!

[courtneycl]

This one is in progress

[courtneycl]

script submitted via PR and dropbox, resulting csv uploaded to dropbox

[courtneycl]

@jasonasher I re-uploaded files to dropbox - I forgot feature_id on the first files.

[jasonasher]

Closed by PR #50