RESOURCE COLLECTION
Open Data
We empower the public to utilize San Francisco data and enable departments to easily share it.
Resources
Be in the know
Explore city data
See all published datasets
Browse our data catalog to see all datasets that have been published on our Open Data Portal
Open Data case studies
See what City departments and the public have made using our open data.
Get help finding a dataset
Are you unable to find the data you are looking for on the Open Data Portal? Let us know what your are looking for!
Guide to using the Open Data Portal
Watch short videos to learn how to search for data, filter, download, and create visualizations.
Documentation
Open data policy
Learn more about Chapter 22D: Open Data Policy in the SF Administrative Code.
Other Data Policies
See our collection of resources outlining the standards to use when sharing data with the public.
Dataset Explainers
Additional Documentation on some of our most popular datasets.
Using American Community Survey (ACS) data
Guide to using American Community Survey data on the Open Data Portal
Data Visualization Guide
Guide for public dashboards and data visualization for the City and County of San Francisco.
Data Standards Guide
DataSF is documenting data standards to make data more useful and consistent across the City at scale.
Understand the Data Inventory and publishing process
Learn about the Data Inventory
Understand the process of inventory your department's data and creating a publishing plan.
Step-by-step data publishing guide
Review the four-step process to share your department's data with the public
View our current Dataset Inventory
See a list of all datasets that have been inventoried. Not all inventoried have been published to the public.
View our current Data Systems Inventory
View a catalog of enterprise systems that collect data on the public (In compliance with CA Gov't Code 6270.5)
Enterprise Data Platform Login
For internal staff: Log into the Enterprise Data Platform to manage existing datasets and publish new data