Poirier, Lindsay. “Reading Datasets: Strategies for Interpreting the Politics of Data Signification.” Big Data & Society 8, no. 2 (2021): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211029322
Code for downloading (in the case of Stop and Frisk Data), importing the data, and producing the figures can be found in BDS-ReadingDatasets-Plots.Rmd. Toxic Release Inventory files can be found in the datasets folder, and pngs of the plots can be found in the plots folder.
Toxic Release Inventory datasets were downloaded from the EPA's TRI Basic Data Files for the entire US for the years 1996 to 2010.
NYPD Stop, Question, and Frisk data was gathered from this webpage - specifically the 2011 CSV Zip Archive.
Questions, bug reports, and feature requests can be submitted to this repo's issue queue.
All code in this repo is licensed with a GNU General Public License 3.0. Please see the license file for details.
All written materials are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). Please see this license for details.
All TRI data files in the datasets folder are US Environmental Protection Agency data and thus in the public domain.
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