Extract Features from Occupancy Permit Data

[jasonasher]

Start with the Occupancy Permit data in the /Data Sets/Occupancy Permits/ folder in Dropbox.
Write a script that uses this data to produce a feature data table for the number of new occupancy permits issued in the last 4 weeks.

You can find the data format and examples on the Feature Dataset Format tab in this document

Input:
CSV files with data for each given year

Output:
A CSV file with

• 1 row for each occupancy permit type, and each week, year, and census block
• The dataset should include the following columns:

feature_id: The ID for the feature, in this case, "occupancy_permits_issued_last_4_weeks"
feature_type: Occupancy permit type, found in the EVENTTYPESCODEDESC column of the source data
feature_subtype: Left blank
year: The ISO-8601 year of the feature value
week: The ISO-8601 week number of the feature value
census_block_2010: The 2010 Census Block of the feature value
value: The value of the feature, i.e. the number of new occupancy permits of the specified types issued in the given census block during the previous 4 weeks starting from the year and week above.

When you are finished
Submit a pull request on GitHub (or upload your scripts)
Upload any files to Dropbox

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[jasonasher]

Look at the issue #3 solution for helpful inspiration!

[eclee25]

Migrated open issue to codefordc/the-rat-hack repository as issue_11.