Data Commons Data Imports

This is a collaborative repository for contributing data to Data Commons.

If you are looking to use the data in Data Commons, please visit our API documentation.

About Data Commons

Data Commons is an Open Knowledge Graph that provides a unified view across multiple public data sets and statistics. We've bootstrapped the graph with lots of data from US Census, CDC, NOAA, etc., and through collaborations with the New York Botanical Garden, Opportunity Insights, and more. However, Data Commons is meant to be for community, by the community. We're excited to work with you to make public data accessible to everyone.

To see the extent of data we have today, browse the graph using our browser.

License

Apache 2.0

Development

Every data import involves some or all of the following: obtaining the source data, cleaning the data, and converting the data into one of Meta Content Framework, JSON-LD, or RDFa format. We ask that you check in all scripts used in this process, so that others can reproduce and continue your work.

Scripts should go under the top-level scripts/ directory, depending on the provenance and dataset. See the example for more detail.

We provide some utility libraries under the top-level util/ directory. This includes maps to and from common geographic identifiers, a sharding writer to break up large output files, a templating library for writing StatisticalPopulations and Observations, and more to come.

GitHub Development Process

In https://github.com/datacommonsorg/data, click on "Fork" button to fork the repo.

Clone your forked repo to your desktop.

Add datacommonsorg/data repo as a remote:

git remote add dc https://github.com/datacommonsorg/data.git

Every time when you want to send a Pull Request, do the following steps:

git checkout master
git pull dc master
git checkout -b new_branch_name
# Make some code change
git add .
git commit -m "commit message"
git push -u origin new_branch_name

Then in your forked repo, you can send a Pull Request. If this is your first time contributing to a Google Open Source project, you may need to follow the steps in contributing.md.

Wait for approval of the Pull Request and merge the change.

Support

For general questions or issues about importing data into Data Commons, please open an issue on our issues page. For all other questions, please send an email to support@datacommons.org.