California Open Data Portal Methods of Searching

Description

Steps and ways to search and use California Open Data Portal.

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CalOpenData Portal Homepage

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.

Cal Open Data Portal Categories

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.

Cal Open Data Portal Organizations

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.

Cal Open Data Portal Popular & Recent Datasets

Also on the bottom of the homepage is a short overview of the most-viewed and used datasets as well as recently added ones.

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Created date

March 17, 2022

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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