Welcome!

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!

Contributing code

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

PDAP Ecosystem

We have a few ongoing projects in repositories below, to help us share data and skills.

Roadmap | Docs

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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