Category: Legacy Post
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This article was originally published to a blog which has been decommissioned. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of the United States educates consumers about financial options, enforces federal consumer financial laws, and conducts studies to “better understand consumers, financial services providers, and consumer financial markets.” Consumers can submit complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about financial…
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This article was originally published to a blog which has been decommissioned. The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has provided budgetary open data for public use that is accessible through WhiteHouse.gov and Data.gov. The data set covers 40 years of history going back to 1976. One of the great benefits of modern software is that anyone with a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…