Open analytics data for okc.gov

[mkchandler]

Description

At a recent meeting with the city Zach Nash (Creative Manager for the city) proposed opening up the analytics for okc.gov. He would like our assistance to see if this is feasible and if we could put together a prototype. I would like to put up an open analytics dashboard for our sites (public site, open budget okc).

Project Leads

TBD

Discussion/Source

• Slack: #okcanalytics
• GitHub:
  • https://github.com/codeforokc/analytics-reporter
  • https://github.com/codeforokc/analytics.codeforokc.org

Additional Details/Links

The suggested open source software was created by 18F and is currently running a few dashboards:

• http://analytics.usa.gov
• http://analytics.phila.gov
• https://bouldercolorado.gov/stats

The repositories are located here:

• Google Analytics Reporting and Publishing Tool: https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter
• Dashboard: https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov

Who will use/benefit from this project?

City staff will have greater insight in to how the web site is being used and at the same time it will be open and available to the public.

Project Needs (dev/design/resources)

• Admin from Code for OKC to set up needed hosting tools
• Developers to get the repo cloned and set up

Status

Experimenting with this code running for the Code for OKC web sites first.

[mkchandler]

I've forked the analytics dashboard for adapting it for our use as a prototype: https://github.com/codeforokc/analytics.codeforokc.org

[energydev]

@mkchandler can you elaborate on what Zach means by "opening up the analytics for okc.gov"?

[mkchandler]

@energydev If you check out the links listed above, they are some examples of essentially making Google Analytics data for sites open to the public. Our goal with this project is to put up a proof of concept using our own Code for OKC Google Analytics data. We got most of this running (locally) during CodeAcross last weekend, and will work on getting it hosted soon.

After that, Zach is going to work with the city devs to see if they can get it up and running (which we could help with), or we could host it and plug in the okc.gov Google Analytics data. That has yet to be decided/fully discussed at this point.

[energydev]

@mkchandler great explanation. Thanks!

[mkchandler]

My plan is to revive some of this work after we launch Open Budget OKC.