2.Motivation
PulsePoint is a 911-connected mobile app that allows users to view and receive alerts on calls being responded to by fire departments and emergency medical services. The app's main feature, and where its name comes from, is that it sends alerts to users at the same time that dispatchers are sending the call to emergency crews. The goal is to increase the possibility that a victim in cardiac arrest will receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) quickly. The app uses the current location of a user and will alert them if someone in their vicinity is in need of CPR. The app, which interfaces with the local government public safety answering point, will send notifications to users only if the victim is in a public place and only to users that are in the immediate vicinity of the emergency. - Wikipedia
Pulsepoint logs of the incidents can be used to identify the local pattern of emergencies which is helpful for local businesses as well as emergency agencies to stay alert and take precautions that, in the long term ensure the social well-being of the people.
The dataset was collected via web scraping using python libraries. The logs were collected from 2021-05-02 to 2021-12-31.
PulsePoint Respond Mobile APP UI (visual inspection of the data) :
| Columns | Description | Data Type |
|---|---|---|
| id | Contains record id | numeric, int |
| type | Incident type (recent or active) | object |
| title | Title of the incident (e.g., Medical Emergency, Fire) | object |
| agency | Agency name (e.g., fire departments, emergency medical services) | object |
| location | Location where the incident took place | object |
| timestamp_time | Time when the incident record was logged | object |
| date_of_incident | Date when the incident record was logged | datetime |
| description | Emergency code description (e.g., E53 - refers to Fire Engine Truck ) | object |
| duration | Duration of the incident | object |
| Incident_logo | Logo of the incident | object |
| agency_logo | Logo of the agency | object |