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How do I add data on Data.CDC.gov?
If you are a current user, there are tutorials below on how to add, improve, tag with metadata, update, etc. your data. Most data stewards upload their excel or csv directly through the web site, and you can also update data via the Socrata API. And we have some tools for automatic uploads. Contact data@cdc.gov for more info. Only authorized CDC data stewards can add and modify data sets on Data.CDC.gov. Please email data@cdc.gov to request access. Each data steward represents the program that owns the data set and coordinated with their respective organizations with the agency.
Do you perform any data quality checks on data sets hosted on Data.CDC.gov?
Each data set is managed by its data steward. Each steward performs quality checks as appropriate for their program and center. This may vary from set to set depending on many factors, so review the metadata for more information on how the data were validated. We maintain a list data validation tools lower down on this page.
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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 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.
- Web Interface for dataset upload - How to upload a dataset via the Web User Interfacedata sets manually through the web.
- 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.