Combine Chicago Crime Data with Census Data for New Insights
The City of Chicago provides access to crime data through their open data portal. Another data set at their portal, which originates from an entirely different source, is for census…
Video Tutorial to Unpivot Data Columns to Rows Using Excel with Power Query
Quite often, data sets will store similar or identical attributes in columns instead of rows. When mashing up data or analyzing data using business intelligence tools, keeping data in rows…
Chicago Socioeconomic Indicator Data Added to Our Library
The above bubble chart graphs Chicago socioeconomic factors by Community Area. You can see that as Per Capita Income rises the Hardship Index decreases, the percentage of households below poverty…
Build Your Own Great Britain Road Safety Data Model
The United Kingdom has a robust, accessible, and useful open data portal. One of the data sets that has been made available to the public is Road Safety Data from…
Film Locations in San Francisco Added to our Mashup Library
There are many interesting data sets to be found in San Francisco's open data portal, but Film Locations in San Francisco was an unexpected surprise. We recently used this data…
Tutorial Video Uses an OData Feed to Pull Data into Excel using Power Query and Power Pivot
Many open data sets are made available via OData feeds. An OData feed is a standardized protocol for data consumption. Learn more about OData feeds at this link. The video embedded…
Using a Google Fusion Tables Network Graph to Visualize a Conformed Data Model
Documenting data models can be painstakingly boring, but having documentation available when building, modifying and using data models can save time and effort on an order of magnitude. Most documentation…
Instructional Video to Mashup Chicago and San Francisco Crime and Police Open Data
Open Data Bits has created the above video to provide value in a few different ways: This video gives instructions for using the Open Data Bits library to create your…
CMS Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data Now Featured at Open Data Bits
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently released Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data at the detail level of Physicians and Other Suppliers. This release of open data…
City of Chicago Crime Data Now Featured at Open Data Bits
The City of Chicago has an official open data portal providing public access to city government data. A data set with details about Crimes in the city of Chicago from 2001…