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Complete. Just need to add tests specific to data

@imrnmzri I just committed a draft of a [Beginner's Guide](https://github.com/openpolicedata/openpolicedata/blob/main/contributing/BEGINNERS_GUIDE.MD). It's meant to be a supplement to the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/openpolicedata/openpolicedata/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.MD#contributors-guide) and provide deeper background on setting up and using some...

Complete. Just need to add tests specific to data

@rkiddy Thanks, this is a big help on where to look for additional California stops data. The difference in date ranges is because the [RIPA law was phased in](https://post.ca.gov/Racial-and-Identity-Profiling-Act). The...

Your points about the RIPA data being a better data source make sense. Perhaps if we are putting up additional stops data for CA agencies, there should be a good...

@rkiddy Just following up. I was hoping to hear more about your tool.

@rkiddy Sounds good. Currently, we would only really need to filter by year and agency anyway so that is perfect. Maybe once you have everything back up and running, you...

@rkiddy Hey, just following up to see if you ever got your flask application for the CA stops data back up and running

Need to get an API key here: https://data.cityofpaloalto.org/developers/ Will have to throw errors if user does not have it and tell them to get one

From: http://api.dev:8080/api/v2/datasets/?auth_key=576bba0dd5a27df9aaac12d1d7ec25c8411fe29e&limit=2&offset=2 A typical request will look like this: >http://paloalto.cloudapi.junar.com/api/v2/datastreams/GENER-RESID-WATER-SERVI-UTILI/data.json/?auth_key=YOUR_API_KEY A few things to note in the request above: >/api/v2/datastreams/ This is an invoke request, that will return a json...