[Noisebridge-discuss] [sudo-discuss] has anyone worked with open data from socrata?

[Gregory Dillon]

>From the https://data.sfgov.org/ I wanted to look at the SF311 data with
two objectives.

1)  See if the response time between reports made and report closes varies
geographically within the city.  I don't know any objective C, but was
thinking about massaging the data with python.  That sounds quite doable.

2)  looking at if reporting rates vary geographically in the City.   As if
I am asking, are there some neighborhoods characterized by squeaky wheels
and others that hardly bother to report?   Unfortunately  I''m conceptually
stuck at the issue, how do I distinguish between the case that says are
less reports in a geography because there are less issues, and the theory
that says a neighborhood gets more services because the people there are
more astute or involved in raising their issues.

Thanks for the interest.




On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Mike Schachter <cubicgoats at gmail.com>wrote:

> Wow, what an excellent site, thanks Romy! It seems like they take
> datasets, process them, and provide an API that allows one to query the
> dataset, and have like 21,000 datasets:
>
> https://opendata.socrata.com/browse
>
> Many of the datasets are raw, i.e. comprised of rows and columns of data,
> so they should be easy to pull via a REST call and then do whatever kind of
> visualization and analysis you'd like within objective C.
>
> Do you have any specific datasets in mind? Machine learning meetups have
> restarted and we're going to meet next some time in January. It could be a
> good opportunity for you to find people to work on your app with!
>
>  mike
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to use government data to make an iPhone mobile app [[native]]
>> for my programming portfolio.
>>
>> Has anyone worked with the socrata open data?
>> they manage the sf open data website... there's interesting stuff there,
>> like all the films that were filmed in SF, and their locations and actors,
>> etc.
>>
>> It would be a fun geolocation app.
>>
>> would anyone be interested in collaborating?
>>
>>
>> =============================
>>
>> Romy Ilano
>> romy at snowyla.com
>>
>>
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