Here are two tools to collect information from the City:
APD Incident Reports Scraper
https://github.com/brandonrobertz/APDIncidentReportsScraper
This tool scrapes the Austin Police Department's messy Indcident Reports Database (police reports) into a machine-readable CSV format. Reports come from the official APD website: https://www.austintexas.gov/police ...
Back in November, 2011, we'd already been logging traffic collisions, hazards, and misc. events from the Austin-Travis County Traffic Report Page for six months. The article, "Traffic is Hell", listed the intersections with the most collisions and we used the geocoded traffic information to generate a map of them ...
Brandon Roberts will be on a panel March 2nd, at the 2013 National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) conference in Louisville, KY. You can read about the conference here, about the presentation here, and more about the data mining contest that led to this panel here.
Roberts was a finalist ...
Writing is hard work, but don't worry because the criminally unpaid staff of Austin Cut is still going strong at it.
Anyone who might be holding out to submit that perfect article -- forget that insanity and send it now! (There is no perfect.) To everyone ...
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