Identifying and Optimizing Data Sources

[steffiekim]

Overview

We need to reorganize data sources complied by a data analyst before, optimize search, and test a low-fi mockup.

Action Items

• Create proof-of-concept with 10 data resources
• Understand how CKAN grabs metadata (what kind of data they grab)
  • Talk to tech lead about CKAN metadata
• Talk with the research team and understand what the community activists want to see in a dataset
• add metadata to data sources

Resources/Instructions

LA Data Resources
LA Counts
Information about CKAN
UCI Machine Learning Repo
Catalogue of LA Geo Data

Personas-related resources
Community Activist Screener Survey #184
Community Activist Screener Survey (expanding recruitment) #193
Interviews for Data Expert Persona #185
Informational Interview with Chris Ringewald
ATD: Data Expert Interview Script: Chris
Data Expert Interviews

[mxajPrice]

Adding here the link Judson shared on CKAN datasets.

[steffiekim]

• Met with @scho-git and @lrchang2 to talk about the scope of the project and distribute work
• Created Catalogue of LA Geo Data

[steffiekim]

Finished cataloging the first 10 entries for the "Health" category in Catalogue of LA Geo Data

[scho-git]

First 10 entries (total) for Business and Recreation & Parks also done
Catalogue of LA Geo Data

[steffiekim]

• Met with the persona team to talk about what the community activists look for when searching for open-source data

Relevant issues:
Community Activist Screener Survey #184
Community Activist Screener Survey (expanding recruitment) #193
Interviews for Data Expert Persona #185
Relevant documents:
Informational Interview with Chris Ringewald
ATD: Data Expert Interview Script: Chris

• Need to follow up with @manosak to see if the interview with Chris revealed relevant information about subject categories and metadata

• @scho-git and I decided to each work on entering another 10 datasets from NYC Open Data

[scho-git]

Finished cataloging another combined 10 datasets from NYC Open Data 311 and Dept. of Education
File renamed to Catalogue of Data Resources to reflect addition of NYC Open Data catalogue

[steffiekim]

Finished cataloging 10 datasets from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in NYC Open Data in Catalogue of Data Resources

[steffiekim]

Met with @nyarly and discussed what columns from Catalogue of Data Resources are essential for the first version that will be built by the end of the month.
Next step: Contact @nyarly at the end of July to see what is needed after the first launch.

[mxajPrice]

The rest of the original tasks for this issue have been moved to #207.