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Data Sources
We do not limit ourselves to a single data source. Below you can find brief descriptions of some of the data sets made available by the city of Boston.
This is the new (third party) source for Boston's trash day address information.
Boston's trash day schedule here: https://www.boston.gov/trash-day-schedule
labelled 'Powered by ReCollect'.
trash_intent.py accesses the information at recollect.net
jmartini noted on 02/13/2018 in issue #39: "The Boston digital team stated that the trash day info at data.boston.gov is often out of date. They are currently using a 3rd party called ReCollect to manage the newest trash day info."
This is the new portal for Boston's open data efforts. This site uses a tool called CKAN, which describes itself as follows:
CKAN is a tool for making open data websites. (Think of a content management system like WordPress - but for data, instead of pages and blog posts.) It helps you manage and publish collections of data. It is used by national and local governments, research institutions, and other organizations who collect a lot of data.
CKAN sites are organized by datasets, which can be made available in multiple formats. AnalyzeBoston contains 131 datasets as of this writing. The API for a dataset can be found by following the link to the dataset and then selecting preview. On the preview page there is a DATA API link.
Here you can find a link labelled odata. odata is a REST protocol for open data. CKAN provides an odata endpoint for the trash schedules by address dataset.
This is the Open311 portal for the city of Boston. It requires an API key and solely provides 311 functionality (checking the status of 311 issues or filing new ones). At some point we'll probably want to incorporate this type of functionality, but for the simple city service information retrieval we're concentrating on right now, this API is not useful.
DEPRECATED
This is the former open data portal of the city of Boston. This API implemented the Socrata Open Data API. Socrata is a company that provides cloud-based data visualization and analysis tools for opening government data. This portal is no longer being updated.