How do I get questions answered that aren't on this list?
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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.
I'm getting an error accessing my private test data set via the OData API?
Data.CDC.gov provides an API to access all data sets by default using a variety of standards such as OData v2, ODATA v4, JSON, CSV, and others. When a data steward publishes a data set, these URLs all become active and accessible in the autogenerated API usage documentation for the dataset (eg, this one for the Science Clips dataset). However, if your dataset is in testing and not published yet, you will need to use an app token to identify you or whatever app or tool you're using to gain access to the dataset. Socrata has documentation on how to generate an app token unique to you (and to reset it or revoke it if necessary) and how to include the app token in your requests.
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
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