it's what you do with the data- brett goldstein
DESCRIPTION
Today, data is an essential tool for government decisionmaking. This session highlights how governments are using data tools and analytics to gain a more complete understanding of problems and the ability to more clearly define goals, measure effectiveness, and adjust as needed. Brett Goldstein, Code for America Board Member, on aggregating datasets through geospatial and time identifiers to better understand urban ecosystems. Watch the video online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s31N6Vybcjc&list=PL65XgbSILalWFStqV0z0N9pvftstJ8AAh&index=8 Get involved with Code for America: www.codeforamerica.org/actionTRANSCRIPT
Plenario:The Next Stage in Open Data
Brett GoldsteinCfA Summit
September 23, 2014@bjgol
But first... what a year
We’ve gone from 0 1How do we go further?
Two friends got together...
and with a lot of help...
One APIOne query
Central data store
Socrata, CKAN, and CSV
City, county, state, and federal
Single spatial index
Single temporal index
Rich context and joins
Plenar.io
http://plenar.io/v1/api/detail/ ?dataset_name=crimes_2001_to_present &obs_date__ge=2014-1-1 &iucr=0110 &weather=true
goo.gl/NaFQ4r
objects: [{observation: {
case_number: "HX268077", domestic: false, primary_type: "HOMICIDE", district: 8, arrest: true, location: "(41.740149334, -87.702275654)", description: "FIRST DEGREE MURDER", beat: 834, date: "2014-05-19T17:04:00", ward: 18, iucr: "0110", location_description: "ALLEY", fbi_code: "01A", block: "084XX S KEDZIE AVE"
},weather: {
wind_speed: 21, sealevel_pressure: 29.98, sky_condition: "SCT070 BKN140 OVC200", wind_direction: "160", visibility: 10.0, wind_direction_cardinal: "SSE", relative_humidity: 34, hourly_precip: null, drybulb_fahrenheit: 70.0, station_pressure: 29.32, wban_code: "14819"
}}, {
observation: {case_number: "HX332990", domestic: false, primary_type: "HOMICIDE", district: 22, arrest: false, location: "(41.703648763, -87.635632145)", description: "FIRST DEGREE MURDER", beat: 2233, date: "2014-07-06T00:07:00", ward: 34, iucr: "0110", location_description: ”HOUSE", fbi_code: "01A", block: "104XX S NORMAL AVE"
},weather: {
wind_speed: 9, sealevel_pressure: 30.01, sky_condition: "SCT038 SCT080", wind_direction: "230", visibility: 10.0, wind_direction_cardinal: "SW", relative_humidity: 73, hourly_precip: null, drybulb_fahrenheit: 69.0, station_pressure: 29.38, wban_code: "14819"
}}, {
observation: {case_number: "HX343780", domestic: true,
goo.gl/NaFQ4r
http://plenar.io/examplesTell me the story of 700 Howard Street.
Give me weekly counts of 311 requests for every city in the country.
Let me download all pothole reports from the census tract containing the Sears Tower.
What recent traffic accidents in Manhattan resulted in a fatality—and what was the weather like?
Show me civilizational collapse during Winter Storm Nemo (Feb 2013).
Extensible tools: goo.gl/CpeuFa
You build the apps
We built the API
Let’s be smarter
Behind the curtain
id
Where the $$$ came from
• UrbanCCD• University of Chicago• DataMade AWS Schema
Who made it
• National Science Foundation EAGER grant
• MacArthur Foundation
Thank youhttp://plenar.io
@bjgol