GovHack 2014 Data Jam presentation from Socrata

1. Leveraging Data to Engage Citizens
and Drive Innovation
Colin Spikes – colin.spikes@socrata.com

2. Seattle-based software-as-a-service
provider with a global presence
Founded in 2007
World-leader in open
data and government performance
management
We build software to make data more
useful to more people to:
 Improve citizen engagement
 Increase transparency
 Deliver data on easy to use APIs
 Make data-driven decisions
Socrata Overview

3. Open Data Customer Leadership
Worldwide Australia Federal State City City County
USAID Melbourne White House Hawaii Chicago New York San Mateo
World Bank Logan City Medicare California Seattle Las Vegas Cook
United Nations
ACT HHS Texas San Francisco Burlington King
Gates Foundation NSW Education
CDC Washington Los Angeles Somerville Montgomery
South America
(1)
Data.gov Maryland Edmonton Raleigh Alameda
Europe (7) CFPB Colorado Atlanta Nashville Prince George’s
Australia (4) EPA Indiana New Orleans Richmond Honolulu
Africa (3) Energy Star New York Dallas Cambridge Strathcona

4. Socrata Open Data API Endpoints
 Located in the catalog
 Format:
https://$domain/resource/$identifie
r.$ext
 For more info:
dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.h
tml

5. Simple Filter
 /resource/abcd-1234.json?source=ConEd
 For more info: dev.socrata.com/docs/filtering.html

6. SoQL Queries
 /resource/4tka-6guv?$where=magnitude > 3.0
 For more info: dev.socrata.com/docs/queries.html

7. Geo Queries
 /resource/earthquakes.json?$where=within_circle(location, lat, long, distance)
 For more info: dev.socrata.com/docs/datatypes/location.html

8. Application Tokens
 Optional, however recommended for applications that will make a large
number of calls
 1 token can be used on all Socrata sites
 Register at http://dev.socrata.com/register
 Include as:
 X-App-Token: $token HTTP Header or ...
 The $$app_token=$token parameter

9. Libraries & SDKs
 dev.socrata.com/libraries/
 Ruby, Scala, Java, Python, iOS, R, etc.

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