This repository contains the code to generate predictions of critical violations at food establishments in Chicago. It also contains the results of an evaluation of the effectiveness of those predictions.
This repository contains the necessary data and scripts to evaluate the effectiveness of the City of Chicago's food inspections pilot. This repository contains the training data and evaluation data.
Important FIles
./CODE/recreating_training_data.R - Generates training data from September 2011 through January 2014.
./CODE/out-of-sample-generation/create_out-of-sample_data.R - Generates out-of-sample data to evaluate the effectiveness of the model.
./CODE/fit_glmnet.R - fits the analytical model, generates coefficients.
./OUT/evaluation-summary.html - summarizes the findings of the program's evaluation. This was created with knitr and the underlying analytics can be seen in ./OUT/evaluation-summary.R.
Running files
Generating training data
Execute recreating_training_data.R to generate training data:
These files currently use several packages that are compatible with R >= 3.1. You may experience issues using older versions of R, including 3.0.x and 2.x.
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