AI for Data Science with San Diego Data

I asked some popular AI chatbots to analyze the open source data that San Diego provides.

I started off analyzing the data for parking meters, since that's a hot button issue for the city, recently. Two separate chatbots gave me similar answers when I asked what's the most amount of money that these 10,978 parking meters could generate if they were in use continuously for the times they're in effect. The answers came back remarkably close: $75,772.75 and $75,796.75. That's an impressive $24 difference between the two AIs. Close enough for me. 

Crimes committed within half a mile of a local high school

Next, I downloaded the 190 MB file of crimes committed in San Diego since 2020 and asked it to plot on a map all of the crimes committed within half a mile of a local high school. I was genuinely impressed with the static HTML file it generated which included listing the crime with each pin. Upon digging deeper, I noticed that I didn't see my police report for my stolen catalytic converter from three years ago. But after a bit of investigation, I realized it wasn’t included in the SDPD’s dataset, so the omission wasn’t the AI’s fault.