database of nyc housing data
Project description
# NYCDB
a tool for building a database of NYC housing data
This is a Python library and cli tool for installing, updating and managing NYCDB, a postgres database of NYC Housing Data.
For more background information on this project, the api, and to download the full database dump see: https://github.com/nycdb/nycdb
## Requirements and Installation
python 3.6+
Postgres 12
The latest version can be installed from pypi with pip: ` pip3 install nycdb `
## Using NYCDB
nycdb downloads datasets and imports them into postgres.
View options and usage: nycdb –help
To print a list of datasets: ` nycdb –list-datasets`
To load all of hpd violations:
` sh nycdb --download hpd_violations nycdb --load hpd_violations -P YOUR_PG_PASSWORD -D YOUR_DATABASE `
After a dataset has been loaded you can verify it with “–verify”
` sh nycdb --verify hpd_violations nycdb --verify-all `
By default the downloaded data files are is stored in ‘./data’. Use –root-dir if you’d like to change the location of the data directory.
To see more options run:
## Development
### Adding New Datasets
[Guide Here](ADDING_NEW_DATASETS.md)
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