Advanced Installation

OpenPoliceData is installed from PyPI.

Basic installation:

The standard installation will enable almost all datasets available in OpenPoliceData to be loaded.

pip install openpolicedata

Install GeoPandas

If GeoPandas is installed, OpenPoliceData can load data that contains location information into GeoDataFrames to aid geospatial analysis. Data without location inforation will still be loaded as a pandas DataFrame. The easiest way to install GeoPandas is with conda:

conda install geopandas

Install with Optional Dependencies

A few datasets require the installation of additional packages (rapidfuzz and msoffcrypto-tool) in order to load them. They can be installed with OpenPoliceData with the following pip command:

pip install "openpolicedata[optional]"

Alternatively, the user can wait to install these packages if they are ever needed. OpenPoliceData throws an error with the required optional packages when a dataset is read that requires them.