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Leveraging the Citywide Data Platform and Open Data

What to know

Prerequisites

You should be comfortable with data analysis and have experience manipulating data in Excel.

About the course

This course will help you unlock features of the internal Citywide Data Platform and the public-facing open data portal to improve your own data workflows.

Have you heard of the City’s open data portal? Even if you haven’t, you should know that it’s much more than a transparency website and catalog of data. It actually has a powerful set of features you can leverage in your own data work. This course is most useful for those who want to use data from the portal, or want to understand how your department’s data can be loaded to the portal. It will help you to unlock data portal features to improve your own data workflows.

Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Offered virtually over Microsoft Teams

What to do

1. Review the course learning objectives

In this course, you will learn:

  • Using the Citywide Data Platform and the open data portal (30 min)
    • Finding a dataset
    • Creating filters and maps
    • Connecting your dataset to analysis tools (PowerBI, Excel)
  • Contributing to the Citywide Data Platform and open data portal (30 min)
    • Uploading a dataset
    • Creating metadata & other documentation
    • Publishing and sharing data

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2. Join the interest list

Fill out our Course Interest form to get a notification email when courses open for enrollment.

This email will include a short Enrollment Form that you will need to fill out to get on the waitlist for that scheduled class. Seats are granted on a first-come, first-served basis so please complete the enrollment form as soon as you can.

Note that filling out the course interest form does NOT guarantee enrollment in any course.

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