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Data Collection NameNYC Parks Syringe Litter
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What’s In This Dataset?
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Summary of what phenomenon is described by data. Includes:
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● How to interpret one line of data● One line of Syringe Combined Summary data represents one instance or one day's total of syringes being collected in a park from the ground or a safe disposal kiosk. One line of Kiosk data represents a single syringe collection kiosk location, its capacity, its type, and when it was installed.
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● How data is collected● Data is collected via Microsoft Forms by NYC Parks staff, and Excel by Corner Project/New York Harm Reduction Educators (CP/NYHRE), an external vendor that empties safe disposal kiosks in parks.
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● How often is data updated?● Data is collected on a daily basis and updated on Socrata on a monthly basis to allow for error-checking and cleanup. There will be a one-month lag to finalize data after the end of the month; i.e. October's data will available no earlier than December 1.
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● What cleaning or processing has occurred prior to publication (geocoding, anonymization, etc)● Prior to publication, duplicates, typos, and other human errors have been corrected.
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● Known limitations of dataset, including missing values● The dataset may still contain errors or omissions, and future updates may change as these are corrected. Due to data coming from multiple internal and external sources the standards and procedures differ in collection method.
● Internal data updates do not account for deltas/changes. Whenever an update occurs the data is deleted and then overwritten.
● Kiosk IDs were recycled in the past, meaning the same ID exists in both retired and current Kiosks. This also means the same ID can exist in multiple properties. Future IDs will not be recycled, however this can cause complications in attempting to match legacy kiosks. This was mainly accounted for by concatenating all Kiosk IDs, current and retired, and property number.
● This is not the full universe of syringe litter in parks, as Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) contractors and community based organizations may collect syringes in various parks on various days.
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● How has dataset changed over time? Has agency added or taken away fields or columns? Have expected values changed?● The dataset has changed over time as new kiosks are added, kiosks are removed, and as syringe litter patterns change across the city. The agency also began collecting data electronically at different times in different areas of the city, with all boroughs reporting this way as of 2021.
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● What fields are required● All fields are required.
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● Related information including supporting datasets, links to Agency websites, etc.● Supporting datasets are a kiosk information sheet and kiosk GIS layer.
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Get Started With This Data:
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Suggest 3 questions that can be asked with this data. How does syringe litter differ between parks? Boroughs? Years?
How does utilization of safe disposal kiosks change over time?
How does utilization of safe disposal kiosks compare with syringe litter?
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