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HPD by Complaint Type

Number of service requests to NYC’s 311 from 2004 to 2016: 24.54 million
What is the difference between “Paint – Plaster” and “Paint/Plaster”? Looking at the actual details of a few of each type of classification will likely reveal the answer but I haven’t gone that granular yet. But I’d be curious to see what patterns exist in the number one complaint – heating. Another mining expedition for another day…..
Complaint Type
SRs
Heating
2,246,847
Plumbing
1,175,723
General Construction
1,146,114
Paint – Plaster
844,579
Nonconst
648,909
Heat / Hot Water
581,431
Electric
464,799
Unsanitary Condition
224,979
Paint/Plaster
194,313
Appliance
162,554
Door/Window
106,346
Water Leak
96,370
General
80,982
Flooring/Stairs
73,697
Safety
25,862
Hpd Literature Request
15,027
Construction
14,846
Outside Building
4,184
Elevator
2,768
Structural
16
Vacant Apartment
6
Agency
5
Agency Issues
2

311 data from NYC Open Data downloaded at various times. As of Feb 19, 2017, 24.5 million rows, 52 variables till 2009, 53 variables from 2010. Parsed using R v3.3.1 in RStudio v1.0.136

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