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Seattle Cultural Space Inventory

These are the results of this ongoing inventory of cultural space in Seattle. From the largest to the smallest, The Office of Arts & Culture are counting every theater, gallery, arts office, rehearsal room, library, music club, museum, and cinema in town.

Current Fleet Surplus/Auction List

Looking to see what fleet equipment the City is selling at auction? Check this out. There is also a related dataset that lists all the City fleet equipment sold in the previous 2 years. To see that data, type Sold Fleet Equipment in the search box.

Seattle Hack4Change

On May 31 Code for Seattle participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking with the local event Hack for Change Seattle. About 60 participants worked on 10 projects ranging from air quality visualizations to hacking bicycle & pedestrian counters.

Coffee with the Sallys

Councilmembers Sally Bagshaw and Sally Clark are out and about in the community talking important issues over coffee. A simple dataset and easy to use mapping function along with custom icons make this a fun and useful way to map information. Grab a beverage and join us!

Building Permit Visualizaiton

Here's a fabulous example of what can be done with data from data.seattle.gov. Using Processing, (www.processing.org), Zubin Rao created an animation depicting Seattle building permit activity, charting permits by location and animating the permits based on dollar amount and issue date. The size of the circle is based on the dollar amount of the construction cost and grows to full size over the course of a year. As the time slider on the right descends, circles from previous years "ghost" out and disappear.

SEA911

SEA 911 was created in response to federal and local government(s) request to utilize public data. This application provides updates regarding 911 calls (fire and police) taking place in the last 24 hours for the City of Seattle. There are separate views for fire/ems and police as well as a combined map view.

Most accessed dataset on data.seattle.gov

Seattle Police Department 911 Incident Response dataset has been viewed nearly 32,000 times, making it the most viewed dataset on data.seattle.gov. Obviously popular, Seattle residents have created more than 200 unique views, maps, and charts of the data to show crime types in the city or crimes in their neighborhood. This data also feeds the City’s Crime maps on My Neighborhood Map's Police Response Incident page.

How To Videos on publishing, charts and graphs, maps, and filters

Do you have data you want to publish? Learn how easy it is to import and publish your data Find out how to create maps, charts, or a new view of your data Check out the videos on Publishing a Dataset, Creating a Point Map, Importing a Dataset, and more.

City Tech Indicators Survey Results

Since 2000, the City's Information Technology Indicators project has been collecting extensive and statistically valid data on residential use of cable tv, broadband adoption and uses (including health, work, education, finance and civic engagement), barriers to broadband adoption, and customer service needs. This project is managed by our Community Technology Program with technical advice from our Citizens Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board (CTTAB). Over 2,900 residents stepped up to complete our residential technology survey! There were 803 people who completed the random phone survey and 2,128 people took the online survey. Thanks for taking the time and caring about the future of technology and how we can communicate effectively in our city and community. There are two versions of the survey results, one is the alphabetic version using text equivalents to the numeric responses and the other is the raw numeric version. Included with each are 6 attached documents explaining the background and process methodologies as well as additional metadata.

New API for 2014 Endorsed Budget;

data.seattle.gov has published the first API (ApplicationProgram Interface) for the 2014 Endorsed Budget. The API is designed to make writing applications and accessing the data easier. Check it out!

Seattle 2014 Endorsed Budget

The City of Seattle implements biennial budgeting through the sequential adoption of two one-year budgets. When adopting the budget for the first year of the biennium, the Council endorses a budget for the second year. The Endorsed Budget is the basis for a Proposed Budget for the second year of the biennium, and is reviewed and adopted in the fall of the first year of the biennium. This data reflects all appropriations (by budget control level) included in the 2014 Endorsed Budget.