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/action

1. Plenario:
The Next Stage in Open Data
Brett Goldstein
CfA Summit
September 23, 2014
@bjgol

2. But first... what a year

3. WHeo’wve d goo nwee fgroom fu 0rther?1

4. Two friends got together...
and with a lot of help...

5. City, county, state, and federal
One API
One query
Central data store
Socrata, CKAN, and CSV
Single spatial index
Single temporal index
Rich context and joins

6. Plenar.io

7. goo.gl/NaFQ4r
http://plenar.io/v1/api/detail/
?dataset_name=crimes_2001_to_present
&obs_date__ge=2014-1-1
&iucr=0110
&weather=true

8. 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"
},
goo.gl/NaFQ4r

9. http://plenar.io/examples
Tell me the story of 700 Howard Street.
Give me weekly counts of 311 requests for
every city in the country.
What recent traffic accidents in Manhattan resulted
in a fatality—and what was the weather like?
Let me download all pothole reports from the
census tract containing the Sears Tower.
Show me civilizational collapse during Winter Storm Nemo (Feb 2013).

10. Extensible tools: goo.gl/CpeuFa

11. You build the apps
We built the API

12. Let’s be smarter

13. Behind the curtain
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14. Where the $$$ came from
• National Science
Foundation EAGER grant
• MacArthur Foundation
• UrbanCCD
• University of Chicago
• DataMade
AWS Schema
Who made it

15. http://plenar.io Thank you
@bjgol