jtmorgan / civicdata-cdsw

Scripts and datafiles for the Community Data Science Workshop series

civicdata-cdsw Scripts and datafiles for the Community Data Science Workshop series

author

Jonathan Morgan

overview

civicdata-cdsw is a set of scripts for generating datasets of residential building permits in the City of Seattle. It uses Python 3 and standard modules from the Anaconda python package. It gathers building permit data from the data.seattle.gov API and neighborhood data from the Google geolocation API. More info available at: http://wiki.communitydata.cc/Community_Data_Science_Workshops_(Fall_2015)/Day_3_Projects/Civic_data

use

Install Anaconda and Python 3 and you're good to go.

output

It generates JSON and CSV output files. Samples of these files are provided in the /data subdirectory, for reference.