HackYourWayDay — What data do we have anyway?

Gar Mac Críosta
Tradecraft of Transformation
3 min readFeb 8, 2017

As discussed in previous posts, the data we are talking about is data to do with locations. Locations where services are delivered or consumed. For example new data that we are publishing for this event from HSE HealthAtlas includes things like Hospitals, Dentists, Pharmacists etc.

hospitals

Data Types

Would that the world was all APIs but alas no. Let’s stick to the most common types of data in use.

  • PDF — :( tools to play with PDFs
  • XLS
  • CSV
  • JSON
  • GeoJSON
  • KML
  • APIs Various

Data Domains

This is not a definitive list of open data sources. It’s simply a list that I think might be interesting for this event. Various Open Data sources and repositories are available and part of Friday’s event is learning and exploring what’s there.

Health

Health Data with API

• Dental Practices: http://hackathonapi2017mm.azurewebsites.net/api/dentalpractices

• GP Practices : http://hackathonapi2017mm.azurewebsites.net/api/gppractices

• Health Centres : http://hackathonapi2017mm.azurewebsites.net/api/healthcentres

• Hospitals : http://hackathonapi2017mm.azurewebsites.net/api/hospitals

• Nursing Homes : http://hackathonapi2017mm.azurewebsites.net/api/nursinghomes

• Pharmacies : http://hackathonapi2017mm.azurewebsites.net/api/pharmacies

Public Services

Disabilities

Transport

Spatial Data

Planning & Housing

Education

Local Government Services

Recreation

Open Data Info

Open Data Technical Framework — https://data.gov.ie/technical-framework

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Gar Mac Críosta
Tradecraft of Transformation

Dad, Sociotechnologist, Business Model Adventurer, Digital Architect, Hopeful Optimist