New York City Parking Violations for Fiscal Year 2016

New York City data contains parking violation issuance records from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. The dataset includes details such as vehicle information, violation location, and issuer details. It is published by the City of New York's open data portal.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of violations by aggregating counts per Violation Precinct and Violation County.
• Model the relationship between Vehicle Make, Vehicle Year, and common Violation Description types.
• Identify temporal trends in ticketing using Date First Observed and Time First Observed fields.
• Assess enforcement activity by analyzing Issuer Precinct, Issuer Command, and Issuing Agency distributions.

Strengths

• Covers a full fiscal year of data from July 2015 to June 2016.
• Contains over 30 detailed columns including vehicle, location, and enforcement metadata.

Limitations

• Data is static and does not reflect subsequent status changes like payments or dismissals.
• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of statistical significance for rare violation types.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us, the official open data portal for New York City.

Collection Method

Collected from parking violation issuance records by the New York City Department of Finance.

Time Range

July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016.

Freshness

Dataset reflects a closed historical period and is not updated.

Geography

New York City, primarily within the five boroughs (counties).