The Police Data Accessibility Project (PDAP) is a nonprofit based in Pittsburgh, PA.
Visit pdap.io to learn more and access data. You are also welcome to introduce yourself and meet data-access-minded people in our Discord server!
Thank you for your interest in helping out!
We mostly use Python (API, back end), Vue JS (front end), and SQL.
Good first issues for new contributors
Volunteer to use your data skills on a community request
Hugging Face is where we maintain machine learning models
We have a few ongoing projects in repositories below, to help us share data and skills.
Check out our uptime stats for a high-level look at our services. We have several services automated. They include:
- Automatic Archives of Data Sources
- Syncing Data Requests from our database to GitHub.
- The Health Monitor checks our app for basic functionality.
- Notifications are sent to users who follow locations at pdap.io.
- We geocode locations and agencies which are missing metadata.
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requests["`Data Requests made by community members`"]:::purple
automation["`Automated crawling for Data Sources with
*data-source-identification*;
automatic maintenance with *data-cleaning*`"]:::gold
db["`Data Sources Database
(via API)`"]:::white
app["`Apps like *data-sources-app* and *automatic-archives*, helping people answer questions with data`"]:::gold
scrapers["`*scrapers* and other code created in response to Data Requests`"]:::purple
automation --> db;
db --> app;
requests --> db;
db --> scrapers