There were 986 roadway fatalities in Illinois in 2013. Where's the data?
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Channel: Next Day Video · 2014 · Education
Nick Bennett http://pyvideo.org/video/2556/there-were-986-roadway-fatalities-in-illinois-in http://www.chipy.org/ Seen on garish LED roadway signs all around Chicago on New Year's Eve, 2013: 986 TRAFFIC DEATHS IN 2013. It leads to many questions: On what roads? When did the accidents happen? What do we do now? I'm scared to drive. I will talk about purging my fears by finding the data to answer some of those questions. http://tothebeat.github.io/fatal-car-crashes/ This talk will involve PythonAnywhere, IPython, a module that's not even on PyPi (dbfpy), searching for and finding open government data, CartoDB, Google Fusion Tables, csv, and maybe Pandas. Rest assured, there will be no graphic photos. Chicago Python User Group known as ChiPy was founded in 2003. We are an active user group organised around a single programming language: Python. With so many members, many who are notable Open Source contributors amongst our group, it's very likely any major tool you have used has been touched by one of our members if not created by a member. Though our main focus is the Python Programming language, our meetings are open to all of all proficiency and experience levels.
