An Exploration of NYPD Open Data for Place-Based Research Studies

Over the span of various projects, John Jay College’s Research and Evaluation Center (REC) has developed a rigorous data inspection and cleaning process to create research-ready data sets for community-level analysis. These projects have involved understanding the effects of interventions focused on specific communities in New York City.

Join this session to learn how this team has explored NYPD data and the process it has developed to make publicly available crime-related data useable for research studies – including how it handles likely errors and overcomes dataset limitations.