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Leveraging Data to Engage Citizens and Drive Innovation

Colin Spikes – colin.spikes@socrata.com

Seattle-based software-as-a-serviceprovider 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

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

Socrata Open Data API Endpoints

Located in the catalog Format: https://$domain

/resource/$identifier.$ext For more info:

dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html

Simple Filter

/resource/abcd-1234.json?source=ConEd

For more info: dev.socrata.com/docs/filtering.html

SoQL Queries

/resource/4tka-6guv?$where=magnitude > 3.0

For more info: dev.socrata.com/docs/queries.html

Geo Queries

/resource/earthquakes.json?$where=within_circle(location, lat, long, distance)

For more info: dev.socrata.com/docs/datatypes/location.html

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

Libraries & SDKs

dev.socrata.com/libraries/ Ruby, Scala, Java, Python, iOS, R, etc.

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