List of open data sources for New Jersey

In March I participated in a hackathon for journalism and data in New Jersey. The following is a list of open data sources they provided us to aid us in our team projects.

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APIs /// Budget and Spending /// Business and Finance /// Campaign Finance /// Census and Demographics /// Crime and Corrections /// City Open Data Repositories /// Education /// Elections /// Disaster Relief /// Environment, Pollution and Wildlife /// Health /// Housing and Real Estate /// Human Services /// Infrastructure /// Labor /// Legislature /// Mapping and Shapefiles /// Miscellaneous /// Non-profits and Charities /// Pensions /// Transportation and Safety /// Taxes /// Veterans /// Weather

APIs

— Sunlight Foundation has seven APIs, including campaign finances and voting records [editor’s note: Sunlight’s APIs power these apps, so don’t replicate anything already here, http://sunlightfoundation.com/projects/ ]

— New Jersey Boundary Service API

— U.S. Census API

— Facebook API

— Foursquare API

— Twitter API,

— Untappd API

— Yelp API

— FDA API

— Parse.ly API

— Bizyhood API
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Budget and spending

— The latest Budget Data released in the state Data Portal.

— NJ State Transparency Center has online query tools and PDF-based reports

— The latest Port Authority payrolls (in 2014)
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Business and Finance

— NJ Business Records Service has a form-based query that may require some scraping to access data

— List of New Jersey banks, from the NJ Division of Banking and Insurance

— Financial Institution Statistics, from the Treasury Department, state-level data

— Insurance and Licensing, from NJ Division of Banking and Insurance
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Campaign finance

— NJ ELEC’s campaign finance databases, with downloads of reports for some races and PDF filings for local elections

— Federal Election Commission data

— FEC-Scraper, Python library for handling FEC data

— Fech, Ruby library for doing the same
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Census and Demographics

— American Fact Finder, the main search tool for digging into the Census’ data sets.

— Census Reporter, easy-to-use tool for journalists to find and visualize Census data

— Rutgers’ New Jersey Data Book, online source for many New Jersey demographic datasets, goes down to the municipality-level
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Crime and corrections

— NJ State Police statistics on crime, gang activity and accidents. Data is mostly in PDF formats and would require some OCR and massaging to unlock

— FBI Uniform Crime Reports

— NJ Registered sex offender database, with query-based data retrieval

— NJ Department of Corrections inmate finder, with form-based queries

— Arrest-related deaths 2004-2014, from NJ Advance Media “Kenwin Garcia” project

— Juvenile Justice Commission data, weekly statistics since 2011 in PDFs
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City Open Data Repositories

— Hoboken’s Open Data site

— Jersey City’s Official Data site

— Jersey City Open Data portal, a searchable repository of Jersey City data

— Newark Open Data portal
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Education

— NJ Department of Education data, one stop shop for everything data in New Jersey

— NJDOE’s Electronic Violence and Vandalism Reporting System, contains school weapons, fights, assault, bomb threats, bullying incidents, etc.

— College Campus Safety and Security Data, from U.S. Department of Education, has data on alleged criminal offenses reported to campus security authorities and/or local law enforcement agencies.
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Elections

— NJ Election Information and Results Archive, with historical returns mostly in PDF

Disaster relief

— Federal Emergency Management data feeds and APIs

— FEMA flood maps

— Federal Procurement Data System

— Sandy Programs and Disbursement data on the state’s Data Portal
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Environment, pollution and wildlife

— NJ Department of Environmental Protection’s Data Miner, with form-based data retrieval

— Contaminated brownfield remediation

— Air Quality data

— Wildlife, fishing and hunting information

— NJ Bear Hunt Data

— Farmland preservation

— Drought data

— Profile of New Jersey’s energy emissions, consumptions and alternative fuel use, from US Energy Information Administration

— Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program data, from the Environmental Protection Agency
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Health

— State inspection report cards for hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities, may require some scraping.

— CMS Open Payments database & ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs project, both contain data on money received by doctors from pharmaceutical companies.

— Data.Medicare.gov, has quality measure comparisons for nursing homes, hospitals, home health and physicians.

— New Jersey Prescription Drug Price Registry

— Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) plan premium prices, down to the county-level

— FDA API, contains adverse reactions and recalls for drugs, devices and foods

— Patient data breaches in medical facilities
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Housing and Real Estate

— Building Permit data, monthly, also going back since 2000

— Foreclosure Statistics, from the State Division of Banking

— Zillow Real Estate Data

— Property Assessment records
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Human Services

— Family Development, food stamp, child services data, along with WorkFirst New Jersey Program.

— FamilyCare Enrollment, enrollment data on the state’s FamilyCare Program.

— New Jersey Division of Addiction Services, Substance Abuse Statistics

— Substance Abuse Treatment Reports, the state’s annual performance reports from substance abuse treatment centers

— Intoxicated Driving Program Reports, from the state’s Intoxicated Driving Program

— Epidemiological Reports,  issued annually by NJ Dept. of Human Services
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Infrastructure

— National Bridges inventory

— National Dams Directory
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Labor

— NJ Department of Labor’s State Data Center

— State labor force estimates and unemployment data

— OSHA enforcement inspections
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Legislature

— State legislature FTP, has bills, laws, votes and bill tracking information from the current and past sessions
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Mapping & Shapefiles

— The NJ Geographic Information Network (NJGIN)

— NJ Office of GIS

— State Department of Environmental Protection GIS data

— State Department of Transportation GIS data, includes roads and highways

— NJ Transit rail GIS data and bus GIS data
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Miscellaneous

— Professional licensing data, with form-based data retrieval queries

— Asbury Park Press’ Data Universe

— Society of Professional Journalists tool box with links to public records

— NJ DataBank, a repository of policy reports and data on various topics

— NJ Child Care licensing data
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Nonprofits & charities

— Directory of registered New Jersey charities

— IRS master file of tax exempt organizations
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Pensions

— Active and Retired State Pension Data
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Transportation and Safety

— State Department of Transportation data, includes tons of transportation data, including downloads of raw accident databases, GIS data and roadway usage

— All of Hudson County Public Transportation GIS data, courtesy of @FakeGreenDress

— 511 Traffic info with form-based data query that could be scraped

— NJ Transit Developer site (need to sign up with a free account) contains GTFS schedule data and rail advisory feeds

— Five months of PATH ridership Turnstile data

— Federal Rail Administration data, includes railroad accident data, among other things
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Taxes

— State Department of Community Affairs’ Property Tax data

— State Department of Treasury tax data

— Property ownership records