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NYPD CCRB

2-panel dashboard of Y Area and Y Line: Y Area chart of AllegationID, grouped by bucket("IncidentDate", 'M'), split by FADOType, filtered to IncidentDate > 1985-01-01, IncidentDate < 2025-01-01, sorted by AllegationID, with 1 computed expression column; Y Line chart of AllegationID, grouped by bucket("IncidentDate", 'M'), split by FADOType, filtered to IncidentDate > 1985-01-01, IncidentDate < 2025-01-01, sorted by AllegationID, with 1 computed expression column.

Civilian complaints against NYPD officers.

NYPD CCRB: 2-panel dashboard of Y Area and Y Line: Y Area chart of AllegationID, grouped by bucket("IncidentDate", 'M'), split by FADOType, filtered to IncidentDate > 1985-01-01, IncidentDate < 2025-01-01, sorted by AllegationID, with 1 computed expression column; Y Line chart of AllegationID, grouped by bucket("IncidentDate", 'M'), split by FADOType, filtered to IncidentDate > 1985-01-01, IncidentDate < 2025-01-01, sorted by AllegationID, with 1 computed expression column.

Data

The NYCLU's database of civilian complaints against NYPD officers, loaded from Apache Arrow and cross-filtered in the browser with no server.

Loaded from /data/nypdccrb.arrow as arrow into the perspective-server engine.

Configuration

This example is a saved <perspective-viewer> workspace. Pass this JSON to viewer.restoreWorkspace() to reproduce it over the same table:

{
    "active": "PERSPECTIVE_GENERATED_ID_9",
    "layout": {
        "type": "split-layout",
        "children": [
            {
                "type": "tab-layout",
                "tabs": [
                    "PERSPECTIVE_GENERATED_ID_9"
                ],
                "selected": 0
            },
            {
                "type": "tab-layout",
                "tabs": [
                    "PERSPECTIVE_GENERATED_ID_10"
                ],
                "selected": 0
            }
        ],
        "sizes": [
            0.5,
            0.5
        ],
        "orientation": "vertical"
    },
    "panels": {
        "PERSPECTIVE_GENERATED_ID_10": {
            "plugin": "Y Area",
            "table": "ccrb",
            "title": "Incidents (area)",
            "group_by": [
                "bucket(\"IncidentDate\", 'M')"
            ],
            "split_by": [
                "FADOType"
            ],
            "sort": [
                [
                    "AllegationID",
                    "col asc"
                ]
            ],
            "filter": [
                [
                    "IncidentDate",
                    ">",
                    "1985-01-01"
                ],
                [
                    "IncidentDate",
                    "<",
                    "2025-01-01"
                ]
            ],
            "expressions": {
                "bucket(\"IncidentDate\", 'M')": "bucket(\"IncidentDate\", 'M')"
            },
            "columns": [
                "AllegationID"
            ],
            "aggregates": {
                "AllegationID": "distinct count"
            }
        },
        "PERSPECTIVE_GENERATED_ID_9": {
            "plugin": "Y Line",
            "table": "ccrb",
            "title": "Incidents (line)",
            "group_by": [
                "bucket(\"IncidentDate\", 'M')"
            ],
            "split_by": [
                "FADOType"
            ],
            "sort": [
                [
                    "AllegationID",
                    "col asc"
                ]
            ],
            "filter": [
                [
                    "IncidentDate",
                    ">",
                    "1985-01-01"
                ],
                [
                    "IncidentDate",
                    "<",
                    "2025-01-01"
                ]
            ],
            "expressions": {
                "bucket(\"IncidentDate\", 'M')": "bucket(\"IncidentDate\", 'M')"
            },
            "columns": [
                "AllegationID"
            ],
            "aggregates": {
                "AllegationID": "distinct count"
            }
        }
    }
}

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