Immediately when visiting the site, the user is taken to the homepage of Cal Open Data Portal with a search bar that can filter open data sets using keywords that the user chooses.
This figure shows some of the categories that Cal Open Data Portal has on their website, all from existing federal agencies, that the user can click on to further filter their dataset searches.
This figure demonstrates that users can also search for state organizations through the organization tab at the top. Each organization has the number of open datasets listed below them, and is also available to click on to discover those datasets.
Brenda Vuong. 17 March 2022, "California Open Data Portal Methods of Searching", Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 19 January 2024, accessed 30 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/california-open-data-portal-methods-searching