NYC Building Permits

ORIE4741Project Fall 2019

Sourabh Chakraborty, Kush Dubey, and Nicolas Morales

Can we predict which kinds of construction permits — residential and commercial — will be approved based on various features about the application’s region?

We’ll use the live NYC Open Data DOB Permit Issuance dataset to gather data about live permit applications, and other NYC Open Data datasets to collect relevant transit, social, and economic features.

Identifying zones and neighborhoods that are more likely to have building permits approved can indicate economic and social drivers at play. We intend to identify factors that impact building permit approval, potentially providing recommendations to home and business owners.

Datasets

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Housing-Development/DOB-Permit-Issuance/ipu4-2q9a

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Housing-Development/Housing-New-York-Units-by-Building/hg8x-zxpr

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parks-Zones/rjaj-zgq7

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/Citywide-Crime-Statistics/c5dk-m6ea

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Housing-Development/Property-Valuation-and-Assessment-Data/rgy2-tti8

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/NYC-Wi-Fi-Hotspot-Locations/a9we-mtpn

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Housing-Development/Department-of-Finance-Digital-Tax-Map/smk3-tmxj

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Subway-Entrances/drex-xx56

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/2018-Yellow-Taxi-Trip-Data/t29m-gskq