Predictive modeling: Task: Ambulance Demand Data Generating Process: Using the service data: The data is collected by the " NYC Traffic data”  to answer the questions:   Frequency of data collection {how often is the data collected?  After every incident? Daily? Yearly?}   Agency / Organization collecting the data {who specifically is collecting the data?  Please avoid using general references like “government” or “police}   Original Unit of Analysis {What is the original unit of analysis for the data as provided?  Calls for service?  Census tracts? Cities?}   Transformed Unit of Analysis{i.e. are you modifying the call data to support your model? Hint: if you are doing “demand” model you will be aggregating the data.}   Data Generation Description{here, I want you in your own words to describe how you think the data was generated.  Think 2-3 sentences.}   Data Collector{Who collects the data? A dispatcher?  A Census taker?}   Triggering Process{What triggers the data to be collected?  A call for service? A yearly survey process?}   Process Alignment{What system captures the data? Is it hand entered?  What existing business process does the data align with [i.e. data on ATM transactions come from someone using an ATM; data from calls for service come from dispatch records for calls coming in to 911, etc.]?}

Predictive modeling:

Task: Ambulance Demand

Data Generating Process: Using the service data: The data is collected by the " NYC Traffic data”  to answer the questions:

Frequency of data collection {how often is the data collected?  After every incident? Daily? Yearly?}

Agency / Organization collecting the data {who specifically is collecting the data?  Please avoid using general references like “government” or “police}

Original Unit of Analysis {What is the original unit of analysis for the data as provided?  Calls for service?  Census tracts? Cities?}

Transformed Unit of Analysis{i.e. are you modifying the call data to support your model? Hint: if you are doing “demand” model you will be aggregating the data.}

Data Generation Description{here, I want you in your own words to describe how you think the data was generated.  Think 2-3 sentences.}

Data Collector{Who collects the data? A dispatcher?  A Census taker?}

Triggering Process{What triggers the data to be collected?  A call for service? A yearly survey process?}

Process Alignment{What system captures the data? Is it hand entered?  What existing business process does the data align with [i.e. data on ATM transactions come from someone using an ATM; data from calls for service come from dispatch records for calls coming in to 911, etc.]?}