ABSTRACT
Several recent studies have looked at the effect of marijuana dispensaries on crime around the dispensary. For these analyses they find the coordinates of each crime in the city and see if it occurred in a certain distance from the dispensary. This chapter covers how to geocode addresses. Geocoding is the process of taking an address and getting the longitude and latitude coordinates of that address. Most of the columns are just the address broken into different pieces so are mostly repeating the address again in multiple columns. The minimum and maximum are very similar to each other for both longitude and latitude so that's a sign that it geocoded correctly.
