Howdy bloggers, how was your week?
For this weeks blog post I decided to analyze the Building and Safety Permit Permission from the City of Los Angeles. This dataset contains building permits, electrical permits and mechanical permits in the city of Los Angeles. I chose this dataset because I thought it would be interesting to look at a dataset I did not have much knowledge about already.
Point of view ontology
This dataset is made for the City of Los Angeles building services, other than that, the people who might find this useful would be people who want to expand or build on their property.
Dataset’s ontology
The ontology of this dataset is divided into three categories: building permits, electrical permits, and mechanical permits, which includes plumbing, HVAC systems, fire sprinklers, elevators, and pressure vessels). These permits can be issued the same day with an Express Permit or an e-Permit, which is called a “No Plan Check” category. Some permits requires that the plans are reviewed by a Building Safety Plan Check worker and this is called “Plan Check” category.
Phenomenon described
This dataset can tell me more about who wants to build something on their property, what they build and their plans, where they build it, and where in the City of Los Angeles they build it.
What gets left out
This is a very comprehensive and well-described list, and because building plans require to be very detailed I do not think there is a lot that is left out on this dataset. It includes what is built, where it is build, and the plans. It may be missing what kind of people build out and why they want to build out, however I do not think this is a very important aspect of this dataset, and neither do I think that it is important to the building services in the City of Los Angeles.
A new Point of View
The only thing I would change would be the setup of the dataset or the website because it can be rather confusing if you do not have any prior knowledge about building permits and things related to that. I would make the point of view so it would be easier for people to understand who does not know much about this topic, but would like to build something on their property or would like to start a new building project.