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Seattle 911 Fire Dispatch E911 SFD Mobile Public Safety
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Seattle Fire Department 911 dispatches.

Volume and Retention

This dataset is stored in Parquet format. It is updated daily, and contains about 800K rows (20MB) in total as of 2019.

This dataset contains historical records accumulated from 2010 to the present. You can use parameter settings in our SDK to fetch data within a specific time range.

Storage Location

This dataset is stored in the East US Azure region. Allocating compute resources in East US is recommended for affinity.

Additional Information

This dataset is sourced from city of Seattle government. Source link can be found here. Find Licensing and Attribution for the terms of using this dataset. Email if you have any questions about the data source.

Notices

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This dataset is provided under the original terms that Microsoft received source data. The dataset may include data sourced from Microsoft.

Access

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Azure Notebooks

Quickly explore the dataset with Jupyter notebooks hosted on Azure or your local machine.

Azure Databricks

Use this when you need the scale of an Azure managed Spark cluster to process the dataset.

Azure Synapse

Use this when you need the scale of an Azure managed Spark cluster to process the dataset.

Preview

dataType dataSubtype dateTime category subcategory status address latitude longitude source extendedProperties
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 7:37:00 AM Aid Response null null 111 Cedar St 47.615877 -122.35052 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 7:37:00 AM MVI - Motor Vehicle Incident null null Rainier Ave S / S Massachusetts St 47.588411 -122.305827 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 7:22:00 AM Illegal Burn null null 888 Western Av 47.603448 -122.336632 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 6:59:00 AM Aid Response null null 3256 Portage Bay Pl E 47.651445 -122.320417 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 6:58:00 AM Aid Response null null 4547 19th Av Ne 47.661675 -122.307239 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 6:49:00 AM Triaged Incident null null Lake City Way Ne / Ne Northgate Way 47.71042 -122.300472 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 6:44:00 AM Aid Response null null 11030 5th Av Ne 47.709488 -122.323301 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 6:11:00 AM Aid Response null null 607 3rd Av 47.602813 -122.331449 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 5:58:00 AM Aid Response null null 2309 20th Ave S 47.58287 -122.306868 null
Safety 911_Fire 1/21/2021 5:48:00 AM Triaged Incident null null 3641 2nd Av S 47.571212 -122.332002 null
Name Data type Unique Values (sample) Description
address string 191,447 517 3rd Av
318 2nd Av Et S

Location of Incident.
category string 232 Aid Response
Medic Response

Response Type.
dataSubtype string 1 911_Fire

“911_Fire”
dataType string 1 Safety

“Safety”
dateTime timestamp 1,508,279 2020-11-04 06:49:00
2019-06-19 11:51:00

The date and time of the call.
latitude double 93,730 47.602172
47.600194

This is the latitude value. Lines of latitude are parallel to the equator.
longitude double 79,096 -122.330863
-122.330541

This is the longitude value. Lines of longitude run perpendicular to lines of latitude, and all pass through both poles.

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Azure Notebooks

Package: Language: Python Python
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In [1]:
# This is a package in preview.
from azureml.opendatasets import SeattleSafety

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import parser


end_date = parser.parse('2016-01-01')
start_date = parser.parse('2015-05-01')
safety = SeattleSafety(start_date=start_date, end_date=end_date)
safety = safety.to_pandas_dataframe()
ActivityStarted, to_pandas_dataframe ActivityStarted, to_pandas_dataframe_in_worker Looking for parquet files... Reading them into Pandas dataframe... Reading Safety/Release/city=Seattle/part-00119-tid-845600952581210110-a4f62588-4996-42d1-bc79-23a9b4635c63-446962.c000.snappy.parquet under container citydatacontainer Done. ActivityCompleted: Activity=to_pandas_dataframe_in_worker, HowEnded=Success, Duration=6116.21 [ms] ActivityCompleted: Activity=to_pandas_dataframe, HowEnded=Success, Duration=6117.7 [ms]
In [2]:
safety.info()
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'> Int64Index: 68346 entries, 14 to 1382908 Data columns (total 11 columns): dataType 68346 non-null object dataSubtype 68346 non-null object dateTime 68346 non-null datetime64[ns] category 68346 non-null object subcategory 0 non-null object status 0 non-null object address 68345 non-null object latitude 68346 non-null float64 longitude 68346 non-null float64 source 0 non-null object extendedProperties 68346 non-null object dtypes: datetime64[ns](1), float64(2), object(8) memory usage: 6.3+ MB
In [1]:
# Pip install packages
import os, sys

!{sys.executable} -m pip install azure-storage-blob
!{sys.executable} -m pip install pyarrow
!{sys.executable} -m pip install pandas
In [2]:
# Azure storage access info
azure_storage_account_name = "azureopendatastorage"
azure_storage_sas_token = r""
container_name = "citydatacontainer"
folder_name = "Safety/Release/city=Seattle"
In [3]:
from azure.storage.blob import BlockBlobServicefrom azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient, BlobClient, ContainerClient

if azure_storage_account_name is None or azure_storage_sas_token is None:
    raise Exception(
        "Provide your specific name and key for your Azure Storage account--see the Prerequisites section earlier.")

print('Looking for the first parquet under the folder ' +
      folder_name + ' in container "' + container_name + '"...')
container_url = f"https://{azure_storage_account_name}.blob.core.windows.net/"
blob_service_client = BlobServiceClient(
    container_url, azure_storage_sas_token if azure_storage_sas_token else None)

container_client = blob_service_client.get_container_client(container_name)
blobs = container_client.list_blobs(folder_name)
sorted_blobs = sorted(list(blobs), key=lambda e: e.name, reverse=True)
targetBlobName = ''
for blob in sorted_blobs:
    if blob.name.startswith(folder_name) and blob.name.endswith('.parquet'):
        targetBlobName = blob.name
        break

print('Target blob to download: ' + targetBlobName)
_, filename = os.path.split(targetBlobName)
blob_client = container_client.get_blob_client(targetBlobName)
with open(filename, 'wb') as local_file:
    blob_client.download_blob().download_to_stream(local_file)
In [4]:
# Read the parquet file into Pandas data frame
import pandas as pd

print('Reading the parquet file into Pandas data frame')
df = pd.read_parquet(filename)
In [5]:
# you can add your filter at below
print('Loaded as a Pandas data frame: ')
df
In [6]:

Azure Databricks

Package: Language: Python Python
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In [1]:
# This is a package in preview.
# You need to pip install azureml-opendatasets in Databricks cluster. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/connect-from-databricks#install-the-python-library-on-your-azure-databricks-cluster
from azureml.opendatasets import SeattleSafety

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import parser


end_date = parser.parse('2016-01-01')
start_date = parser.parse('2015-05-01')
safety = SeattleSafety(start_date=start_date, end_date=end_date)
safety = safety.to_spark_dataframe()
ActivityStarted, to_spark_dataframe ActivityStarted, to_spark_dataframe_in_worker ActivityCompleted: Activity=to_spark_dataframe_in_worker, HowEnded=Success, Duration=2751.74 [ms] ActivityCompleted: Activity=to_spark_dataframe, HowEnded=Success, Duration=2753.86 [ms]
In [2]:
display(safety.limit(5))
dataTypedataSubtypedateTimecategorysubcategorystatusaddresslatitudelongitudesourceextendedProperties
Safety911_Fire2015-05-04T19:18:42.000+0000Medic Responsenullnull7101 38th Av S47.538872-122.284744nullincident_number:F150047883
Safety911_Fire2015-12-01T23:29:47.000+0000Aid Responsenullnull1011 S Weller St47.597509-122.319511nullincident_number:F150137603
Safety911_Fire2015-12-13T20:20:59.000+0000Aid Responsenullnull10049 College Way N47.701742-122.335029nullincident_number:F150142622
Safety911_Fire2015-11-23T00:19:21.000+0000Medic Responsenullnull9428 58th Av S47.518216-122.260497nullincident_number:F150134268
Safety911_Fire2015-05-19T16:25:55.000+0000Medic Responsenullnull10011 51st Av S47.510803-122.27006nullincident_number:F150054054
In [1]:
# Azure storage access info
blob_account_name = "azureopendatastorage"
blob_container_name = "citydatacontainer"
blob_relative_path = "Safety/Release/city=Seattle"
blob_sas_token = r""
In [2]:
# Allow SPARK to read from Blob remotely
wasbs_path = 'wasbs://%s@%s.blob.core.windows.net/%s' % (blob_container_name, blob_account_name, blob_relative_path)
spark.conf.set(
  'fs.azure.sas.%s.%s.blob.core.windows.net' % (blob_container_name, blob_account_name),
  blob_sas_token)
print('Remote blob path: ' + wasbs_path)
In [3]:
# SPARK read parquet, note that it won't load any data yet by now
df = spark.read.parquet(wasbs_path)
print('Register the DataFrame as a SQL temporary view: source')
df.createOrReplaceTempView('source')
In [4]:
# Display top 10 rows
print('Displaying top 10 rows: ')
display(spark.sql('SELECT * FROM source LIMIT 10'))

Azure Synapse

Package: Language: Python Python SQL
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In [21]:
# This is a package in preview.
from azureml.opendatasets import SeattleSafety

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import parser


end_date = parser.parse('2016-01-01')
start_date = parser.parse('2015-05-01')
safety = SeattleSafety(start_date=start_date, end_date=end_date)
safety = safety.to_spark_dataframe()
In [22]:
# Display top 5 rows
display(safety.limit(5))
Out[22]:
In [1]:
# Azure storage access info
blob_account_name = "azureopendatastorage"
blob_container_name = "citydatacontainer"
blob_relative_path = "Safety/Release/city=Seattle"
blob_sas_token = r""
In [2]:
# Allow SPARK to read from Blob remotely
wasbs_path = 'wasbs://%s@%s.blob.core.windows.net/%s' % (blob_container_name, blob_account_name, blob_relative_path)
spark.conf.set(
  'fs.azure.sas.%s.%s.blob.core.windows.net' % (blob_container_name, blob_account_name),
  blob_sas_token)
print('Remote blob path: ' + wasbs_path)
In [3]:
# SPARK read parquet, note that it won't load any data yet by now
df = spark.read.parquet(wasbs_path)
print('Register the DataFrame as a SQL temporary view: source')
df.createOrReplaceTempView('source')
In [4]:
# Display top 10 rows
print('Displaying top 10 rows: ')
display(spark.sql('SELECT * FROM source LIMIT 10'))

SELECT
    TOP 100 *
FROM
    OPENROWSET(
        BULK             'https://azureopendatastorage.blob.core.windows.net/citydatacontainer/Safety/Release/city=Seattle/*.parquet',
        FORMAT         = 'parquet'
    ) AS [r];

City Safety

From the Urban Innovation Initiative at Microsoft Research, databricks notebook for analytics with safety data (311 and 911 call data) from major U.S. cities. Analyses show frequency distributions and geographic clustering of safety issues within cities.

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