Month: April 2014

  • Have you ever browsed open data sets, and realized that open data is loaded with GIS data?  When searching the web for new open data visualizations, I stumbled across Mapbox.  According to their website, “Mapbox is an open source mapping platform for developers and designers at enterprise scale.” The visualization below is from a Mapbox blog…

  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently released Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data at the detail level of Physicians and Other Suppliers.  This release of open data has generated significant publicity and has become a hot topic of debate.  A few articles about this CMS data release are linked at the bottom…

  • This article was originally published to a blog which has been decommissioned. The City of Chicago has an official open data portal providing public access to city government data.  A data set with details about Crimes in the city of Chicago from 2001 to present is available through the portal. Once the City of Chicago crime data has been…

  • This article was originally published to a blog which has been decommissioned. The State of Connecticut has recently launched an open data portal providing public access to open data.  The site is powered by Socrata, which in my experience provides a very solid platform for open data.  One of the data sets available at the newly launched site…