How do I get questions answered that aren't on this list?
Email data@cdc.gov and that mailbox is monitored by Brian and Linda. When they answer your question, they'll probably add it to this list.
How do I add featured content to my category?
If your userid has publisher permissions, you can update the category's featured content with data sets, articles, or other items of interest related to your data. You can also write up a description for your category using Markdown to add minimal html like links and formatting. Socrata has a nice tutorial page with training on how to do this.
How to I use data on Data.CDC.gov?
Every data set has a page describing the data and how to get to it with specific examples to browse online, access via an API, or through a wide variety of visualization and analysis packages.
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.