Johns Creek expands data portal with new tools
In what local officials say is the first system of its kind in Georgia, Johns Creek has launched “DataHub,” an expansion of its OpenData portal that will offer interactive tools to help residents see, understand and work with large amounts of city-generated data.
Code enforcement, building permit and fire and police data are offered, with a dashboard format allowing interactive graphs and maps to help users visualize the data.
“We built the DataHub to be a single, centralized place to work with data,” said Nick O’Day, senior GIS manager. “The Hub is unique because it helps walk people through the information instead of only being a place to download data.”
A major reason for DataHub is to support economic development by providing access to data and the tools to understand it, officials said. They compared the system to the GeoHub recently launched by the city of Los Angeles, the first portal of its kind in the U.S.
Information: datahub.johnscreekga.gov/
