Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login
ProPublica posts NYPD records, bypassing judge’s blockade (apnews.com)
14 points by kick on July 27, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Hm, on the metadata page [0], the size is less than a mebibyte, and there's only about 18 bytes per row. Is this a compressed size, or have rows been redacted?

I'd check myself, but honestly I'm not sure I could resist the temptation to bypass the Terms of Use and redistribute such a small and politically important dataset.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/civilian-compla...


zipped file, with 33000 rows, and most columns chosen from a list of options, so it looks very easy to compress.


Previous discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957892




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: