Code1161 — Week6

The readings this week included two episodes of the Data Skeptic Podcast, available here:

https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2016/potholes

https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2015/nyc-speed-camera-analysis

Potholes

You might think that data science and the forms/bureaucratic procedures involved in municipal road maintenance sound like rather dry, boring topics on their own. You might be surprised to learn then that when you combine the two…they are still quite boring.

This episode investigated the process of digitising the reporting of maintenance issues to municipal authorities, and ways in which that kind of data could be crowd-sourced to gather a really broad survey of real world conditions.