3-1-1 Service
Requests
Like some other cities, the City of Kansas City, Missouri
provides access to non-emergency city services through the
special 3-1-1 phone number.
Socrata open
data portal
Socrata provides the
open data portal for KCMO, called OpenData KC, which
includes access to the KCMOPS311
data. The KCMOPS311 data are updated every
day.
Periodic
summaries
The data can be viewed online, or downloaded and
analyzed. I periodically use an R script to summarize
the data in an attempt to understand what's in the
data. In particular, I'm trying to understand any
health-related data.
Click on the links below to see various descriptive
statistics from the latest summary of the KCMO 311 data (January
3, 2015) :
Over time I hope to improve the analysis of this data.
What was most common request type of 3-1-1 calls to the
KCMO Health Department in 2014 -- and in every year since
2008? That would be "Rat Control
Treatment." There were over 1000 calls in 2014 and
over 7000 calls since 2008.
Live Data
Socrata allows the data to be embedded in other web sites, like shown below: