ParKomfort CSE 6242 Project - Fall 2021

DESCRIPTION

This package contains the flask web app for ParKomfort, Jupyter notebooks/python scripts for data analyses/data wrangling (in utils folder), as well as aggregated/cleaned datasets (in data folder).

INSTALLATION

To install the application locally:

• Clone the git repository.
• Use Python version 3.7 or higher.
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install packages for flask web app.
• Create a mapbox free-tier account at https://www.mapbox.com/ to get a personal access token. Create .mapbox_token file under data directory and store the personal access token inside .mapbox_token file.
• Run the following command in the app's directory to run your web app. python app/run.py
• Go to http://127.0.0.1:5000/

EXECUTION

Once server is up and running, navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5000/. There are two main functions to this app:

• HOME: Homepage shows the precinct level vehicle larceny and crime data for NYC. It also offers interaction with the data. For example, clicking each precinct and click Magnifying Glass button will show the statistics for that precinct, such as monthly fluctions or year-on-year change.
• SEARCH: Search page offers the functionality to look up closest parking meters near destinations, taking risk level and search radius into account, thus offering customized user experience. For example, input 123 Main St NYC into search box, user risk level = 2, and search radius = 4 miles, click GO button will initiate look up. The map will display the 10 closest parking meters. If risk level is changed to 1, redoing the search will return another set of 10 closest parking meters locations in a safer precinct.

DEMO VIDEO

• Link to demo video: https://youtu.be/8VuHE4yrtNg

APPENDIX

• Raw dataset can be found at:

  • dataset 1: New York parking tickets data from NYC OpenData for the fiscal year 2021 and 2022 (about 1.2 GB) (https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violations-Issued-Fiscal-Year-2022/pvqr-7yc4 and https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violations-Issued-Fiscal-Year-2021/kvfd-bves)
  • dataset 2: NYC street parking meter (https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Parking-Meters-GPS-Coordinates-and-Status/5jsj-cq4s)
  • dataset 3: NYPD complaint data (https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYPD-Complaint-Data-Current-Year-To-Date-/5uac-w243)

• Geopy API library was used to encode street address into latitude and longitude for further processing.

• Access to the Geopy encoded data (access via Gatech Office 365 account) https://gtvault.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/CS6242/Eha_3E_6odROrKRdHvav1WUBY_Secmeu8m_DNkNw6ATv2Q?e=ngnuX4