Introducing scout, an open source browser-based tool that eases the discovery and curation of thematically related and joinable datasets to broaden the application of open data to uncover new insights.
Scout is designed to help surface datasets in the NYC Open Data Portal that might have escaped your attention before.
Try it out here
We love all contributions, be it a bug report or feature request via a GitHub issue, or feedback over email
We will maintain a 6 month roadmap which you can read here: roadmap. If you want clarification on the roadmap or have suggestions or other comments, please open an issue.
If you want to help with the development of scout, you will need to be able to run the code locally. Scout is built using React and for development we use yarn.
To get started install yarn and then run the following in a terminal:
yarnOnce that is done simply run the folowing to start the development server:
yarn start
Main data source for the project is the Socrata Data Discovery API. API docs live here: