[melbourne-pug] Project time?

[paul sorenson]

These are pretend data sets.

What you need is a row for every crime for crime stats, every fatality
for road deaths etc.

cheers

On 06/02/10 11:24, Anthony Briggs wrote:
> Anthony Briggs wrote:
>> Lars Yencken wrote:
>>> On 5 February 2010 15:39, Leigh Morresi <dgtlmoon at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:dgtlmoon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     has anyone actually tried to get this "data" ?
>>>
>>>
>>> I looked at data sets released last year in the same spirit, and they
>>> seemed to be mostly summary statistics, a far cry from the raw data
>>> feeds which powered Chicago Crime, which is now EveryBlock
>>> <http://www.everyblock.com/>.
>>
>> That was my thought too. I can't see how you would make something
>> compelling with those three example data sets. From the police site:
>>
>> "Victoria Police will be updating the crime figures every three months
>> so you can see what is happening in your suburbs and hear directly
>> from your local police Inspector about the work being done by police
>> in your neighbourhood."
>>
>> That's not "open access" - that's called "having a web site".
> 
> A quick bit of googling around found this page:
> 
> http://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?Document_ID=782
> 
> Which gives some more meaty stats, like "Offences Recorded by Offence
> Code 10 Financial Years". However, I suspect you'll need to know a bit
> about the law to make sense of it, and the laws do seem to switch around
> a bit. For example, there are several lines for trafficking heroin:
> 
> 653A    TRAFFICK HEROIN    9719.71.1   
> 2,378    1,745    651    8    24    9    10    5    1    17       
> 653J    TRAFFICK LARGE COMM QTY - HEROIN    9719.71    0    0    0   
> 10    0    7    7    2    0    4       
> 653L    TRAFFICK COMM QTY - HEROIN    9719.71AA    0    0    0    12   
> 10    12    13    5    13    7       
> 653N    TRAFFICK HEROIN    9719.71AC    0    0    324    917    1,175   
> 919    541    599    442    661       
> 
> However, there are a couple of fields for the criminal category/code
> that it references (eg. 653A/9719.71.1 or 653N/9719.71AC), so if there
> was another dataset for what these mean, it could work.
> 
> Has anyone else found similar datasets online? It could be that using
> sets other than the mickey mouse ones that you're fed by the competition
> might give you a better chance :)
> 
> Anthony
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