How do I get questions answered that aren't on this list?
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Temporal metadata helps users and their visualization and analysis tools understand the time period for a data set in a machine-readable, easy to use manner. Data.gov uses the Project Open Data Schema for temporal metadata which uses ISO8601 Date definitions with a solidus (“/”) between time periods. So for example, if your data set contains data from 2015 to 2017, it is represented by "2015/2017" in Data.CDC.gov's "Temporal Availability" metadata field.
Is there a way for Users to save all of their Filters within Data.CDC.gov so they can apply as needed?
Yes. Users can create their own private filtered views to see the data just the way they like it. No one else can see it and it doesn't show up in the catalog. It's also possible for data stewards to create more standardized filtered views from a data set that are reviewed and published by the program. Functionally, they are the same, just the audience is different. Socrata has a tutorial on how to set one up.
Why are your Wiki avatars so boring?
If you look at our avatars on the various posts and pages, you'll see a little cartoon image for each user (typically Brian or Linda, but maybe some day others). We used to have useful photos, but during security review, one of our awesome collaborators in the security review states that all photos were proscribed PII and not allowed. While we disagreed with them since the photo was uploaded directly by the user at their own choice, Brian didn't really care too much, so made everyone get rid of their photos. We also collectively agreed never to let users google our names because they might see photos of us on CDC's web site. And we agreed to not worry about this and be excited about being able to use the cool, free services offered by Atlassian (the maker of this wiki) for open source projects like ours.
Relevant Law, Rule, and Regulation
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Data Validation Tools
- Goodtables.py - "a framework to validate tabular data. It can check the structure of your data (e.g. all rows have the same number of columns), and its contents (e.g. all dates are valid)."
List of Socrata Tutorials That I've Found Helpful
- Featured Content For The Data Catalog - How to update categories with featured content items.
- Using The Platform - How to open up and work with data sets in lots of tools (Tableau, R, Plotly, PowerBI, etc.)
- Data Visualization - How to work with data sets specifically for visualization
- Locating The API Docs for a Dataset - how to work with the Socrata API for each dataset
- Access Socrata Data Using OData - Specifically through the Open Data Protocol API standard
- Metadata API - How to read the data about data sets via an API
- Socrata "Primer" A Dataset's Landing Page - How to navigate around each data set's landing page.
- How to upload a dataset via the Web User Interface
- Updating datasets using working copies - Use temporary, private versions of data sets to edit and update, review and clear, and then publish to make visible to data set users.
- Creating a Filtered View - How to create filters and sorts on data sets.