Month: February 2014

  • This article was originally published to a blog which has been decommissioned. The open data sets previously featured at Open Data Bits were both from the city of San Francisco, and they both contained latitude and longitude coordinates.  Mashing Up the Data Sets Both the San Francisco Graffiti Reports and SFPD Reported Incidents data are…

  • The city of San Francisco has numerous data sets available to the public, including data that details reports about graffiti in the city.  This article will model, integrate, and visualize that data. Accessing the Data San Francisco’s graffiti data can be accessed at the following web page: https://data.sfgov.org/Service-Requests-311-/Graffiti-SF311-Reports/vyt7-q4b9 The page is in a user-friendly Socrata format containing discussions, links…

  • The city of San Francisco has made a wealth of data available for public use via an open data website.  One of the many robust and useful data sets is sourced from the San Francisco Police Department and contains details about reported incidents spanning back to 2003.  This article will discuss modeling, integrating, and visualizing San…

  • The 2014 Canadian Open Data Summit is taking place in Vancouver today, February 21.  In the spirit of the convention, an open data set from the Canadian government will be featured in this article.  Data.gc.ca has survey results available as open data for a 2012 HIV/AIDS Attitudinal Tracking Survey.  When viewed on an interactive dashboard, this data set is…

  • This article was originally published to a blog which has been decommissioned. New York City also has Restaurant Inspection Results data available for use as open data, and in this article we have mashed it up with the 311 Service Requests data model that we had previously created. Accessing the Data New York City’s Restaurant…

  • This article was originally published to a decommissioned blog. New York City has made open data available to “serve as a rich resource for developers, civic groups, and anyone else to build applications on their own.”  One of those data sets contains data for 311 Service Requests from 2010 to Present.  This data is very interesting to explore…