Abstract:- The value of data is exponentially related to the number of people and applications that have access to it. The City of Los Angeles embraces this philosophy and is committed to opening as much of its data as it can in order to stimulate innovation, collaboration, and informed discourse. This presentation will be a review of what you can find and do on our open data portals as well as our strategy for delivering the best open data program in the nation.

1. Delivering a Quality Open Data
Program in Los Angeles
Chelsea Ursaner, Solutions Architect
Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti
City of Los Angeles
Sept 9 2017 / #DataLA

2. OPEN DATA
#DataLA

3. History of the Movement
● Early days
● Data.gov - 2009
● Municipalities follow
● Los Angeles - 2014

4. #DataLA
Why Do We Care?

5. Agenda
#DataLA
• Our Process (in three simple steps)
1.Reduce Barriers to Getting Started
2.Understand and Prioritize Needs
3.Make Success the Most Natural Course of Action
• Reflections

6. 1. Reduce Barriers to
Getting Started
“Standards are like toothbrushes.
Everybody wants one but no one wants to use
anybody else’s.”
• Minimal enforcement of standards or rules
• Goal is quantity
#DataLA

7. #DataLA
We did it!
● More than 1,000
datasets in 2 years
● 100% participation
across departments
● #1 city for open data
by Sunlight
Foundation

9. 2. Understand and Prioritize Needs
Performance Management
ParkingVeterans
Housing
Earthquake Resiliency
Water Conservation
Homelessness
Economic Development
Recreation TrafficTourism
#DataLA

10. • Participate in hack nights and
conferences
• Use dataset requests as learning
opportunities
• Present challenges: public Trello
board
Talk to people!
• Goal is learning

11. Look at the Data - User Traffic

12. OUR DATA AT WORK
“I’m glad this dataset is available for several
reasons. First, it allows me to get some
background on whether or not a company is
established. Second, it allows me to ask
about all the work the contractor has done
for which there were permits filed, not just
the cherry picked testimonials they’d like to
spoon feed me. With so many horror stories
about contractors, it’s great to be able to do
a bit of validation with open data.”
LADBS PERMIT
DATA

13. What 9 Million Parking Tickets Say about LA

14. 3. Make Success the Most Natural
Course of Action
#DataLA
People Technology
• Goal is quality

15. CITYWIDE DATA COLLABORATIVE
Collaborating with data leadership (YOU) to
identify citywide gaps and needs as they relate to
data and analytics!
#DataLA

16. LONG TERM INVENTORY “ROADMAP”
#DataLA

17. Visualization of all the data
from 150 datasets
consisting of ~686,000
records
Visualising all data in ElasticSearch

18. REFLECTIONS
on transparency, engagement, and value
#DataLA