2. Data repositories
• All open source
• Hosted on Github
• https://github.com/EdinburghCityScope
3. Each dataset contains
• Open Data with appropriate license/attribution
• DCAT spec JSON
• CSV format of data
• JSON format of data
• Loopback API for local usage
• Notebook with visualisation examples
• Importer to get new data from source automatically
4. Repositories so far
• 43 repositories
• Open Data from
• City of Edinburgh Council
• Department for Work and Pensions
• National Health Service
• National Records of Scotland
• Open Street Maps
• Scottish Government
• University of Edinburgh
5. Types of data
• Infrastructure
• e.g. University campus buildings, city recycling points
• Economic
• e.g. house prices
• Social
• e.g. SIMD, job seekers allowance statistics
• Medical
• e.g. 5-in-1 immunisation, hospital admissions
6. Features
• Notebooks
• Project Jupyter - http://jupyter.org
• Allows execution of a variety of code
• Used by Cityscope to provide visualisations on data
• Virtual tours
• Based on a WordPress blog
• Uses the Curious Edinburgh iOS app to show tours
• Survey tool/designer
• Uses Fieldtrip-Open
• Allows collection of data using customisable surveys
• API
• Uses Loopback
• Allows Developers to interact with datasets