OpenDataPhilly

OpenDataRace is a contest to uncover Philadelphia-related data sets that are not yet available to the public. Non-profit organizations across the city have nominated data that would help them accomplish their missions and improve our region. Vote now for the data set that you think should be open and available. The top three data sets will earn cash prizes for their nominators and the assistance of the OpenDataPhilly team in opening the data for public use.

Votes	Agency	Nominated By	Data Set	Remarks
596	School District	Philadelphia Public School Notebook	National Student Clearinghouse Data for Philadelphia	Under Discussion
552	Police	Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia	Reported Bike Thefts	Not Released Bike theft data is currently available through the Police Department's Crime Mapping application at http://citymaps.phila.gov/crimemap/. The information is available both through an interactive map and for download in CSV format, but is currently limited to 30 day increments.
295	Licenses & Inspections, Office of Property Data, Public Property, Revenue	Conservation Pennsylvania	Vacant Land Data	Not Released Data on public taxes can be accessed at http://www.phila.gov/revenue/RealEstateTax/ but there is no option to view or download a list of tax liens.
282	Public Property and Office of Property Data	Urban Tree Connection	Publicly Owned Vacant Land	Not Released Public property listings are available at http://www.phila.gov/publicproperty/listings/ but the data is not available as a download.
251	Licenses & Inspections	The Reinvestment Fund	Residential Unsafe Building Citations	Under Discussion Licenses & Inspections is currently developing an application and API that will provide access to some of its data.
85	Office of Supportive Housing	Back on My Feet	Demographic Info for Individuals Accessing Shelter Services	Not Released
82	Licenses & Inspections	Regional Housing Legal Services	Vacant Property Registration Information	Under Discussion Licenses & Inspections is currently developing an application and API that will provide access to some of its data.
62	Licenses & Inspections, Water, Gas Works, Office of Property Assessment	Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia	Parcels Identified as Vacant Land	Not Released
53	Licenses & Inspections	Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia	Business Formation Data via Business Privilege License	Under Discussion Licenses & Inspections is currently developing an application and API that will provide access to some of its data.
39	Licenses & Inspections	Community Legal Services	Construction Permits	Under Discussion Licenses & Inspections is currently developing an application and API that will provide access to some of its data.
23	Streets and Parking Authority	Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia	Bike Rack Locations	Released http://opendataphilly.org/opendata/resource/187/philadelphia-existing-adopt-bike-racks/
17	School District	The Food Trust	School BMI Data	Not Released
13	Office of the Sheriff	The Reinvestment Fund	Homes in Sheriff's Sale Status	Not Released Information on properties to be sold under Sheriff's sale is available as a webpage at http://www.phillysheriff.com/properties.html. It is not available in a structured data format that can be downloaded or otherwise accessed.
11	Streets	Economy League of Greater Philadelphia	Bridge and Road Condition Data	Not Released
11	Streets	Pennsylvania Horticultural Society	Street Paving and Construction Schedule	Not Released Some information on street paving is available in PDF form at http://www.phila.gov/streets/2009_PavingPrograms.html. The data does not have clear dates and can only be accessed as a PDF.
11	Public Health and Licenses & Inspections	Community Legal Services	Restaurant and Food Inspection Data	Under Discussion Licenses & Inspections is currently developing an application that would provide access to some of their data.
9	Licenses & Inspections	Regional Housing Legal Services	Code Violations and Enforcement Information	Under Discussion Licenses & Inspections is currently developing an application and API that will provide access to some of its data.
9	Water	PennPraxis	Stormwater Billing Data and Green Infrastructure Data	Not Released Data is available at http://phillystormwater.org/ as an address-based mapping application but cannot be downloaded as a database of properties.
8	Revenue	Community Legal Services	Business Privilege Tax Data	Not Released
8	Revenue	Economy League of Greater Philadelphia	City Wage Tax Data	Not Released
8	City Commissioners Office	Committee of Seventy	Philadelphia Election Results	Not Released
8	Records	Committee of Seventy	Campaign Finance Records	Not Released Campaign finance records can be searched at https://phila-records.com/campaign-finance/web/ but the data cannot be downloaded.
8	School District	Economy League of Greater Philadelphia	Percent of High School Graduates Attending College	Not Released
4	City Commissioners Office	Committee of Seventy	Polling Place Information	Not Released
0	Monster.com, Idealist.org, Craigslist.com	Career Wardrobe	Open Jobs in Philadelphia	Not Released Data is not maintained by a department in the City of Philadelphia
0	Office of the Sheriff	Community Legal Services	Database of Foreclosure Sales	Not Released Community Legal Services nominated several data sets. Since forclosure and vacant land data was requested by other organizations, we chose to include the other, unique nominations from CLS.
0	Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection	Clean Water Action	Environmental Permit Reporting Data	Not Released Data is not maintained by a department in the City of Philadelphia
0	School District	Economy League of Greater Philadelphia	High Value Added Schools	Not Released The Economy League nominated several data sets. This nomination did not appear to request a specific data set that could be made available. We chose to include other nominations from the Economy League.
0	Records	Regional Housing Legal Services	Deed Records	Not Released Regional Housing Legal Services nominated several data sets. We felt it would be difficult to make all deed records available via API and chose to include other nominations from RHLS.
0	Unknown	Philabundance	Food Insecurity	Not Released We could not identify a City department that would track this information.
0	Office of Food Protection	Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future	Food Waste Data	Not Released Data is not tracked and could not be made available.
0	Office of Property Data	Community Legal Services	Database of Property and Business Owners	Not Released Community Legal Services nominated several data sets. Since property data was requested by other organizations, we chose to include the other, unique nominations from CLS.
0	PECO	Next American City	PECO usage data	Not Released Data is not maintained by a department in the City of Philadelphia
0	Property Data	Center for the Study of Economics	Publicly Owned Vacant Land	Not Released The nominating organization did not identify a particular data set to be made available.