Big news: Baltimore city opens up data spigot
Big news today out of Baltimore: the long-anticipated (by this blog) release of data sets by the city has finally arrived.
There's crime data, 311 data, tax data, parking citation data -- and much, much more. The data is available at this site: http://data.baltimorecity.gov/
What's cool about this new site is that it doesn't only allow you to view the data. Programmers and hackers and web geeks can export the data and come up with their own presentation methods for displaying the data.
What do you think? I want to see the mash-ups that get created with this data. Ping me if you plan on doing interesting things with it: gus.sentementes@baltsun.com.
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Posted by Gus Sentementes at 12:04 PM | Permalink
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Categories: *NEWS*, Big Ideas, East Coast, Government Tech, Web Dev & Apps
Categories: *NEWS*, Big Ideas, East Coast, Government Tech, Web Dev & Apps
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I appreciate that the city is being more open with their data. I was looking at the Parking Citation data to see if I could find anything that could help me when I go to court next week for a parking violation. Unfortunately most of the data included no time and date data, which does not help me make my case.
Posted by: Ben | January 26, 2011 3:45 PM
A quick look at the same Parking Citation data also shows some other data quality issues. For instance there are 571 records which indicate the location of the violation is some variant of 'unknown'.
Posted by: Paul | January 26, 2011 6:27 PM
I'm really not getting the jist of it. I'm not sure how to navigate the data.
Posted by: Michelle Brown | January 26, 2011 7:08 PM