Developing Data Products

Nicholas Dell'Omo
November 25, 2014

Where to Live in NYC

New York City is a big place. Someone new to the city may need some help determning what area of the city to live and work. Luckly for us, NYC provides free data on all 311 calls. When residents of NYC have a non-emergency issue, street light is broken, construction noise is to loud, they can call 311 and report the problem.

The Data

The data was downloaded from the NYC Open Data site and mapped to police precincts. Precincts were used becuase they closely map to different neighborhoods. The data has the following fields in it:

 [1] "Air.Quality"                "Animals"                   
 [3] "Construction"               "Food.Establishment"        
 [5] "Hazardous.Materials"        "Noise"                     
 [7] "Other.Enforcement"          "Parking"                   
 [9] "Person.Disturbance"         "Property.Damange.Disrepair"
[11] "Roadway.Condition"          "Sanitation"                
[13] "Street.Light"               "Trees"

The Most Calls

This map shows where the most 311 calls occure in NYC. plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-2

Determine what you care about most

Some people may think a certain type of complaint is more important than the other. Visit my Shiny and you click through the complaint types and determine where to live, or more importantly, where NOT to live!

Happy Hunting!