Tuesday, November 22, 2011


The reason that we decided to go ahead and process the simpler tables was because many of our tables were extremely complex. The most complex one by far is the location of where the ticket took place. Some of the entries are block numbers with the accompanying street name. For example: 800 Classen Blvd. Others are entered as intersections. For example: Robinson St. and 24th St. This has caused major delays in assembling the table. Our professor, Chris Krug has suggested that we organize all the locations by block number. This has required Lilly and I to go through each piece of data and choose the most prominent street of the two and figure out what block of the street the intersection is on. Since there are over 2,400 unique locations that tickets were given we are attempting to work with the city planner's office to see if they have records that already hold this information in order to speed up the process. The picture above is to show how inconsistent the data is. Lindsey St. and 12th St. are entered into the police database in four different ways.

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