A look into processing NYC Film Permits Data for analysis - BetaNYC

In order to map and analyze NYC Film Permits Dataset (which you can find among many other datasets on NYC Open Data) we first had to prepare the data for geospatial visualization and analysis. The location data needed for this project is contained in a column called “ParkingHeld”. As it is, it is represented by a street between two bounding cross streets. It does not contain geographic coordinates like longitude, latitude, which are useful for representing data on a map.