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Outcomes of food safety inspections of restaurants and other similar providers of food to the public. This dataset helps protect public health by informing consumers about possible food safety concerns. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | Yes | Explicitly listed as "public domain" under the "About This Dataset" section in the sidebar on the main data page. |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | From the county website: "The Alameda County Restaurant Inspection Results on this site are available no later than 14 days after the inspector's visit. Information presented in the search will include inspections made within the last year." |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV, JSON, RDF, TSV, XLS, XML | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | I googled "Oakland, CA restaurant inspections" and immediately found the data as the very first search result at https://data.acgov.org/Health/Alameda-County-Restaurants-Inspections/3d5b-2rnz/data. | |
| licence_url | https://data.acgov.org/Health/Alameda-County-Restaurant | Explicitly listed as "public domain" under the "About This Dataset" section in the sidebar on the main data page. |
| Collected by government | Yes | Data is collected by the Alameda County Environmental Health Food Safety Program, which covers the City of Oakland. |
| usability | 3 | By default, the complete data set is presented in an well-labeled spreadsheet format. It is easily filtered, navigated, exported, and visualized on a map (among other options). |
| collector_name | Alameda County Environmental Health Food Safety Program | |
| characteristics | Date, Address, Establishment name, Outcome (pass/fail, letter grade, score, etc.), Violations found (for places with violations) | |
| location | href="https://data.acgov.org/Health/Alameda-County-Restaurants-Inspections/3d5b-2rnz/data" https://data.acgov.org/Health/Alameda-County-Restaurant">rel="nofollow">https://data.acgov.org/Health/Alameda-County-Restaurant - Alameda County Restaurants Inspections complete results, broken down by restaurant., href="https://www.acgov.org/aceh/food/index.htm" https://www.acgov.org/aceh/food/index.htm">rel="nofollow">https://www.acgov.org/aceh/food/index.htm - Alameda County Environmental Health Food Safety Program overview. |
