Today we’ve added support for querying the data that appears on Chicago Health Atlas by adding JSON endpoints for the major pages. If you want to get access to the underlying data that drives our maps and charts, just add “.json” to the URL of pretty much any page and we’ve got you covered.
Examples:
You can see all community area and zip code boundaries in Chicago by eyeballing our map:
Or you can see the raw data http://www.chicagohealthatlas.org/places.json:
You can see all birth rate data by year or see the data all at once.
Birth rate data for the Loop area with confidence intervals as json.
Thanks to Dan Sinker and Cory Nissen for asking for this feature and Derek Eder for getting it done lickety-split.
@SmartChicago Awesome. I’d love to be able to ping an API and get each location’s data as a JSON chunk.
— dan sinker (@dansinker) June 18, 2013
@SmartChicago Nice, can the raw data be accessed at all, or are we limited to browsing via the map interface?
— cory nissen (@corynissen) June 18, 2013
@corynissen @smartchicago Seems like you may have just built the official one form them!
— dan sinker (@dansinker) June 19, 2013
See also Cory’s method for querying this site– thanks for doing this, Cory.
Have at it!
