risachi / Code301BikeBright

(JS) Group Project 2 at CF - integrated map recommends where to park your bicycle in PDX
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Review civicapps to determine if bike theft data is included in datasets #151

Open gsmatth opened 8 years ago

gsmatth commented 8 years ago

We chose not to use the Portland Oregon crime stats (http://www.civicapps.org/datasets/crime-incidents-2014) as a source of our bike crime data because it did not specify bike theft as a category. There is no way to currently determine which of the crimes are related to bikes. The Portland Police Bureau is considering updating the crime stats dataset to include bike theft as a separate category, but has not committed to that change. Review the available datasets before each release to determine if the change has been made. Instructions on how to download and convert the data set is included in our docs folder.