boston_fire_incidents_monthly {knnwtsim}

boston_fire_incidents_monthly

Description

A dataset which contains the monthly count of fire incidents in the city of Boston, MA, USA, as well as one indicator for the period where a COVID-19 state of emergency was declared in Massachusetts. Data is present for starting from 2017-01-01 to 2021-07-01. Derived by Matthew Trupiano from a series of .csv files hosted on https://data.boston.gov/.

Usage

boston_fire_incidents_monthly

Format

A dataframe with 55 rows and 3 variables:

week

first day of a given month, date.

incidents

summarized count of fire incidents in the month which starts the date of the corresponding month variable.

covid.soe.ind

1 if the month contains days between '2020-03-10' and '2021-06-15' when a state of emergency for COVID-19 was declared in Massachusetts else 0.

Source

https://data.boston.gov/dataset/fire-incident-reporting