The document discusses San Francisco's open data program, highlighting its goal to empower citizens and organizations to use the city's data, including crime statistics and 311 call data. It mentions various applications of this data, such as for urban design and community analysis, while providing resources for accessing and exploring this information. The document also touches on the challenges and potential solutions regarding reliable data for affordable housing.

1. Open
Open Data
For Designers
Jason Lally
Open Data Program Manager
City and County of San Francisco

2. MISSION
To empower use of
the City’s Data.

3. “I recently grabbed all crime data captured by the SFPD
Crime Incident Reporting system, which is available
through SF open data. It has ~1.7 million records from the
past 12 years with a temporal and spatial stamp on each
one. I've been interested in digging into some GIS data, so
this is awesome!” - Lance Martin
http://lmart999.github.io/2015/02/28/gis/
But, there's a lot more to look at with this data. I invite folks to pull
the notebook and explore for themselves!

4. “Like many cities, San Francisco runs a
311 hotline for non-emergencies:
everything from noisy neighbors to
potholes to broken parking meters. We
can use Turf to quickly calculate the
number of 311 calls by neighborhood
for a single week and see the top-five
call topics for each neighborhood.”
- Lyzi Diamond, MapBox
https://www.mapbox.com/blog/turf-
government-data/

5. Still from the Movie Big Hero 6 by Walt Disney Pictures
“The animators used detailed property data from the
city's Assessor-Recorder's office—available thanks to
the city's progressive open data program—to get
detailed information about the city's 83,000 buildings
and the nearly exact number and location of elements
like streetlights and street trees.”
- Gizmodo article by Alissa Walker, 11/10/14

6. What is open data?
Technically open – available in machine readable, standard
formats
Legally open – explicitly licensed to allow commercial and non-
commercial use, without restric=on

7. https://data.sfgov.org

10. Built Environment Social EnvironmentNatural Environment
Open Data for Designers

11. What…does the city do about affordable housing?
Where…do you go for reliable data about
affordable housing?
The answers are
the problem…
not sure
X and Y and Z
and Q and…
Not possible!
The solu>on…Housing Data Hub
Single place:
• Housing overview
• Descrip=on of policies and
programs
• Suppor=ng data & viz

12. housing.datasf.org

13. enduring
sources of
truth
&
unbroken
data
lineages

14. http://datausa.io

15. https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

16. Fifteen-year-old Grace Clark teaches New Orleans Police
Superintendent Michael Harrison how to write his >irst
line of code. (Of>icial NOPD photo by Tyler Gamble)

17. @SFBrigade @jbiroscakCodeForSanFrancisco.org

18. THANK YOU@datasf | datasf.org |datasf.org/blog