Merge pull request #13 from fivethirtyeight/sandy-311

Sandy 311

README.md

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 Article Date(s) | Headline(s) | Folder
 ---|---------|-------------
+September 19, 2017 | [The (Very) Long Tail Of Hurricane Recovery](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/sandy-311/) | [sandy-311-calls](sandy-311-calls)
 September 18, 2017 | [What The World Thinks Of Trump](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-world-thinks-of-trump/) | [trump-world-trust](trump-world-trust)
 September 8, 2017 | [Can You Beat FiveThirtyEight's NFL Predictions?](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/nfl-predictions-game/) | [nfl-elo-game](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/nfl-elo-game)
 September 7, 2017 | [Al Gore’s New Movie Exposes The Big Flaw In Online Movie Ratings](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/al-gores-new-movie-exposes-the-big-flaw-in-online-movie-ratings/) | [inconvenient-sequel](inconvenient-sequel)

sandy-311-calls/Readme.md

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+# Sandy 311 Calls
+
+Raw data behind the story [The (Very) Long Tail Of Hurricane Recovery](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/sandy-311/)
+
+Data was collected from the City of New York's [NYC OpenData](https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/311-Call-Center-Inquiry/tdd6-3ysr) website. The [data dictionary](https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/wewp-mm3p/files/3a563b1d-9e0b-4824-98c7-a308bbc5ce6e?download=true&filename=Call%20Center%20Inquiry%20Data%20Dictionary.xlsx), hosted on the city's  website, contains an "Agency List" tab with the full form of each agency's acronym.
+
+You can recreate this spreadsheet by downloading all the data from Oct. 2012 to today from that site (warning: it's very large), and running the following R code:
+
+```
+allCalls <- read.csv('DOWNLOADED_DATA_HERE')
+
+justSandy <- allCalls[grepl("Sandy", allCalls$BRIEF_DESCRIPTION),]
+
+library(reshape2)
+justSandy$date <- mdy(justSandy$DATE)
+bydate <- dcast(justSandy, date ~ AGENCY)
+```