Sacramento has taken the number two spot on the U.S. City Open Data Census in its number of publicly available data sets, behind only San Francisco.
The census is a partnership between Code for America, the Sunlight Foundation and the Open Knowledge Foundation. The website, us-city.census.okfn.org, places cities in the U.S. based on whether there is a dataset for a given category, such as expenditures or business listings, and on whether the data is free, machine readable and publicly available.
Last year, Sacramento partnered with Junar to provide public data in chart, dashboard or sortable spreadsheet formats. The Open Data Platform has information on the finances and budget of the city, crime and census data and building permit numbers.
According to the census, Sacramento has 100 percent open data sets for its annual proposed budget, construction permits and procurement contracts.
Other categories of information, such as crime report data, expenditures and code enforcement violations had some degree of openness but were not available in bulk or in a machine readable format.
The census website provides links for all of the datasets available and allows visitors to propose revisions.
