I’ve spent the majority of my life in the Chicagoland area. So it came as somewhat of a surprise to me when I recently ran across the name of a city that was less than 30 miles away that I had…
I’ve spent the majority of my life in the Chicagoland area. So it came as somewhat of a surprise to me when I recently ran across the name of a city that was less than 30 miles away that I had…
I recently came across a reference that stated over 100 streets in Paris are named after mathematicians. Having never heard that before, I decided to investigate and see what that looked like. The following site had tallied 91 streets that…
As part of the investigation in crime around the 606 trail, we pulled the crime data from Chicago’s open data portal. The following is a straight forward sample Python script for pulling a daily extract. Note that the available crime data on…
We were looking to investigate bicycle fatalities involving cars, first at a more recent and local level and then eventually at a national and historical level. This post will detail our data collection at the national and historical level. The…
In a previous post, I gave an overview of a project to investigate the occurrence of crimes near the 606 (Bloomingdale) trail in Chicago. Data for the investigation came from the City of Chicago Open Data Portal, and investigation into…