NYC Solid Waste Facility Inspection Records with Violation Counts

Inspection records for permitted, privately operated municipal solid waste disposal locations in New York City. The dataset includes inspection ID, date, and counts of violations and warnings. It was created by the NYC Department of Sanitation but is based on a legacy system no longer maintained.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in VIOLATIONS and WARNINGS over time using the INSPECTION_DATE column.
• Identify facilities with frequent non-compliance by grouping records by INSPECTION_NO and summing VIOLATIONS.
• Model seasonal patterns in inspection outcomes by extracting month and year from INSPECTION_DATE.
• Assess inspection severity by calculating ratios of VIOLATIONS to WARNINGS per inspection record.

Strengths

• Contains four structured columns: INSPECTION_NO, INSPECTION_DATE, VIOLATIONS, and WARNINGS.
• Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, and XML.

Limitations

• Dataset is explicitly noted as 'no longer maintained', indicating potential staleness and lack of recent updates.
• Sample size, total rows, and temporal coverage are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• No direct link to current operational data; users must join with other datasets for contemporary analysis.

Provenance

Source

NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) via data.cityofnewyork.us.

Collection Method

Collected from inspections of permitted, privately operated municipal solid waste disposal locations.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

New York City, USA.