Seattle Real Time Fire 911 Calls API Data pulled into Excel for analysis using Microsoft BI tools Power Pivot, Power Query, & Power View
The above video walks through the process by which to use an API to pull data into Excel from a real time database of public information. Note that the database,…
World Bank Forest and Agricultural Data Mashed Up to Visualize Trends
The World Bank provides open data about development in countries across the globe including data about agricultural land and forest area by country over time. Combining both of these data…
Mash Up Minneapolis and New York City Restaurant Inspection Data
The City of Minneapolis has made restaurant inspection data available to the public as open data. A useful example of how this data can be used and exposed to the…
Video Tutorial on Scatter Charts for Data Visualization
Earlier this month I posted an article reviewing the basic principles of scatter charts for data visualization. The article received quite a few hits and links, so I went ahead…
Understanding and Using Scatter Charts – One of the Most Powerful Data Visualization Tools
Bar charts, line charts, and pie charts are the staple data visualization tools that most people use to present and consume data. If you've ever explored the chart types in…
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…
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…
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…
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…