boston_fire_incidents_weekly {knnwtsim}

boston_fire_incidents_weekly

Description

A dataset which contains the weekly count of fire incidents in the city of Boston, MA, USA, as well as a number of holiday indicators and one indicator for the period where a COVID-19 state of emergency was declared in Massachusetts. Data is present for weeks between 2017-01-01 and 2021-07-25. Derived by Matthew Trupiano from a series of .csv files hosted on https://data.boston.gov/.

Usage

boston_fire_incidents_weekly

Format

A dataframe with 239 rows and 16 variables:

week

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

incidents

summarized count of fire incidents from the Sunday in the week variable to the Saturday before the next week.

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.

covid.soe.ind

1 if the week 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