Currently, I am working on developing an application that will showcase parking tickets issued in New York City. The API that I am utilizing can be found at this link. My goal is to generate a graph illustrating the number of tickets handed out per month. Within the dataset, there exists a column named "issue_date", which contains the year, month, and additional numbers that are unfamiliar to me. Is it feasible to extract only the year and month portion from this column rather than the entire string? For instance, if I wish to view tickets issued in January, would it be possible for me to search for entries like 2017-01 without considering the rest of the data and causing errors in my code? Thank you for your assistance!
I wanted to mention that I am currently a first-year college student with limited programming knowledge. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by my lack of expertise.