Image courtesy Linnea Westerlind, Year of Seattle Parks
In preparation for the City for All hackathon where data scientists will look at long-term solutions to answering the question, “how can the City contribute to health, longevity, and a vibrant life?” – four City departments – Human Services Department, Parks, Office of Housing and Seattle IT – have released new open datasets. Together they contain nearlytwo million rows of public data that show what kinds of programs and services the City provides and who takes advantage of them.
Human Service Department
- Aging and Disability Services Client Level Data – 2016
- Aging and Disability Services Client Level Data – 2015
- Aging and Disability Services Client Level Data – 2014
- Aging and Disability Services Client Level Data – 2013
- Aging and Disability Services Client Level Data – 2012
- Aging and Disability Services Client Level Data – 2011
- Aging and Disability Services Client Level Data – 2010
Parks
Housing
Seattle IT
The U.S. Census Bureau has released data about the demographics of Seattle in relation to age, ethnicity, and economic status. You can find that in a SharePoint folder here. The folder also includes data from Sound Generations about its Meals on Wheels program and tables from the most recent Decennial Census and 5-year American Community Survey that cross-tabulate age by an array of characteristics including household size, race, language spoken, income level, car ownership, and disability status. All of the tables are easily mappable and are provided at the census tract level, with some going down to finer geographic levels.
These data visualizations shed light on demographics, aging, and health in our city:
- 2010 Census Population Pyramids (provided by Tableau)
- Urban Center & Urban Village Neighborhood Population Maps (provided by Tableau)
- Aging and Health in Seattle (provided by LiveStories)
Special thanks to all the data owners and Open Data Champions for making this possible in their departments, and to the Open Data and Privacy teams for their hard work to release this data in time for this weekend’s hackathon.
Hackathon teams will present their solutions on Sunday, September 24 at 2 p.m.to a panel of judges from AARP, Impact Hub Seattle, Microsoft Accessibility, Socrata, Sound Generations, Tableau, and the Age-Friendly Seattle Initiative. Teams will compete for recognition in four categories: Best Overall Innovation, Best Data Visualization, Best Accessibility Hack, and Best Use of Open Data.
Happy hacking!