Sodapy Tutorial Using NYC Open Data
Author: Mark Bauer
Introduction
This project demonstrates how to:
- use sodapy (i.e. the python client for the Socrata API) and
- provides examples of the Socrata Query Language (also known as SoQL)
Additionally, inspiration for this project came from the sodapy GitHub page. Much of what I learned about sodapy, as well as working with the Socrata API, came from these developers. I encourage you to review the official sodapy GitHub page to have a better and more complete understanding of sodapy (e.g. installation, requirements, available methods, basic SoQL queries, etc.). This tutorial is meant to complement the official sodapy docs.
Data
The data set used in this project is 311 Service Requests from 2010 to Present from NYC Open Data.
Tutorials
The sodapy tutorial notebook can be found here sodapy_basics.ipynb.
The Socrata Query Language (SoQL) notebook can be found here socrata_query_language_tutorial.ipynb.
Additional Resources
Sodapy
The official sodapy docs: https://github.com/xmunoz/sodapy
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/sodapy/
Inspiration for this project: https://github.com/xmunoz/sodapy/blob/master/examples/soql_queries.ipynb
Socrata Open Data API
The official Socrata Open Data API docs: https://dev.socrata.com/
Queries using SODA: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/queries/