New Media Talk - Socrata - Making Data Social with a Case Study by the EPA

Kevin & Jeffrey will demonstrate how the EPA used Socrata's social data sharing technologies to embed BP Oil Spill data on the EPA's website in ways that engage less technically savvy audiences.

The Socrata Social Data Platform allows agencies to transform data from download-only CSV's, to interactive datasets, empowering web visitors to sort, search, filter and analyze data. Social capabilities allow your end users to comment and rate the data, save their own views, and even distribute your data across the web. Tabular data can be visualized as maps and charts. Socrata's Social Data Player allows your agency to embed these interactive datasets on your .gov website.

In the webinar you will learn:

- How EPA used Socrata to transform BP Oil Spill data into an interactive and visual dataset and embed it on epa.gov

- How other agencies are using Socrata

- How to upload a dataset into Socrata, transform it, visualize it and embed it on your .gov website

- Best practices for sharing government data in social and accessible ways

Socrata - Making Data Social - is a Seattle-based, technology innovator focused on making data accessible, useful and understandable by audiences without technical training. Socrata has already negotiated government approved Terms of Use with GSA and a free version of our Social Data Platform is available in apps.gov.