Originally raised by @maminian on 9 Feb. 2022
Given a region defined in some way (person doing this would need to figure this out), can we search the records for all results which happened within that region?
Ex: "find all cases within 3 blocks of this intersection"
Ex: "find all cases within 3 blocks of the Williams College campus"
Ex: "Find all cases within this arbitrary polygon defined by longitude/latitude coordinates"
Things worth looking in to:
- geopandas package; may have some tools for this. numpy may be able to do similar things.
- Massachusetts geospatial data (personally I would search for .gov websites with .shp files ("shapefiles") but some people may prefer finding another python package for this)
- Other geospatial/address databases or python packages might be necessary (can we automatically find the boundaries of Williams College for example?)
Originally raised by @maminian on 9 Feb. 2022
Given a region defined in some way (person doing this would need to figure this out), can we search the records for all results which happened within that region?
Ex: "find all cases within 3 blocks of this intersection"
Ex: "find all cases within 3 blocks of the Williams College campus"
Ex: "Find all cases within this arbitrary polygon defined by longitude/latitude coordinates"
Things worth looking in to: