15-second Case Studies in Open Government Data
summary
EveryBlock aggregates address‑level local news and public records—property transfers, restaurant inspections, foreclosures—and actually pulls building permit data every month from Chicago after repeated requests, a feed that coincides with five inspectors being indicted weeks later. Originating from ChicagoCrime.org (May 2005), work exposes messy sources: Dallas serves raw FTP crime dumps, San Francisco moves from scrapeable maps to well‑formed XML, and New York’s BIS system shows that databases with budgets and human maintainers keep apps running.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to EveryBlock
- 0:39Data acquisition lessons
- 1:53Politics and ambition
- 2:46The reality of data
- 4:00App contests vs maintenance
- 5:00Building community connection
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