boston_911dispatch_weekly {knnwtsim}

boston_911dispatch_weekly

Description

A dataset which contains the weekly count of 911 dispatches in the city of Boston, MA, USA, for three City of Boston public safety agencies: Boston Police Department, Boston Fire Department, and Boston Emergency Medical Services. In addition a number of holiday indicators, and dummy variables for months. Data is present for weeks between 2010-10-31 and 2014-04-20. Derived by Matthew Trupiano from a .csv file (911 Daily Dispatch Count By Agency (CSV)) hosted on https://data.boston.gov/.

Usage

boston_911dispatch_weekly

Format

A dataframe with 182 rows and 28 variables:

week

first day of a given week (Sunday), date.

BPD

summarized count of 911 dispatches from the Sunday in the week variable to the Saturday before the next week for the Boston Police Department.

EMS

summarized count of 911 dispatches from the Sunday in the week variable to the Saturday before the next week for the Boston Emergency Medical Services.

BFD

summarized count of 911 dispatches from the Sunday in the week variable to the Saturday before the next week for the Boston Fire Department.

new.years.ind

1 if YYYY-01-01 or YYYY-12-31 occur during the week else 0.

christmas.ind

1 if YYYY-12-24 or YYYY-12-25 occur during the week else 0.

thanksgiving.ind

1 if the holiday Thanksgiving occurs during the week else 0.

veterans.ind

1 if YYYY-11-11 occurs during the week else 0.

indigenous.ind

1 if the holiday Indigenous Peoples Day occurs during the week else 0.

labor.ind

1 if the holiday Labor Day occurs during the week else 0.

july4.ind

1 if YYYY-07-04 occurs during the week else 0.

juneteenth.ind

1 if YYYY-06-19 occurs during the week and the week st is >= '2020-06-01' else 0.

memorial.ind

1 if the holiday Memorial Day occurs during the week else 0.

patriots.ind

1 if the holiday Patriot's Day occurs during the week else 0.

st.patricks.ind

1 if YYYY-03-17 occurs during the week else 0.

presidents.ind

1 if the holiday President's Day occurs during the week else 0.

mlk.ind

1 if the holiday Martin Luther King Jr. Day occurs during the week else 0.

jan.ind

1 if week variable occurs in January else 0.

feb.ind

1 if week variable occurs in February else 0.

mar.ind

1 if week variable occurs in March else 0.

apr.ind

1 if week variable occurs in April else 0.

may.ind

1 if week variable occurs in May else 0.

jun.ind

1 if week variable occurs in June else 0.

jul.ind

1 if week variable occurs in July else 0.

aug.ind

1 if week variable occurs in August else 0.

sep.ind

1 if week variable occurs in September else 0.

oct.ind

1 if week variable occurs in October else 0.

nov.ind

1 if week variable occurs in November else 0.

dec.ind

1 if week variable occurs in December else 0.

Source

https://data.boston.gov/dataset/911-daily-dispatch-count-by-agency