{"id":1532,"date":"2017-10-22T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2017-10-22T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T05:59:31","slug":"1532","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/22\/1532\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3: Listing of Active Businesses in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The dataset of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/data.lacity.org\/A-Prosperous-City\/Listing-of-Active-Businesses\/6rrh-rzua\/data\">Listing of Active Businesses<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/data.lacity.org\/browse\">City of L.A.<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a listing of all active business \u201ccurrently registered\u201d with the Office of Finance. According to the website\u2019s description, an active business is one that is \u201ca registered business whose owner has not notified the Office of Finance of a cease of business operators.\u201d The data was created on May 21, 2014 and is updated monthly, with its last update on October 17, 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its categories are broken down into:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Location Account #:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The account number of the business location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Business Name:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The legal name of the business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>DBA Name:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Doing Business As (DBA) name. If more than one DBA name exists, then all names are shown as a pipe-separated list.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Street Address:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The street address of the business location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>City:<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The city of the business location.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Zip Code:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The zip code of the business location<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Location Description:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The abbreviated address description of the business location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Mailing Address:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The mailing address of the business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Mailing City:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The abbreviated address description of the business location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Mailing Zip Code:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The mailing address Zip code of the business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>NAICS:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The self-reported North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code, which is used in classifying business establishments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Primary NAICS Description:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The description of the primary NAICS code. Descriptions that are noted as &#8220;(1997 NAICS)&#8221; apply the code and description designated in 1997 as referred to in the New Business Exemption Ordinance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Council District:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The council district # reflects the current council district assignment for that location address. &#8220;0&#8221; means the business location is out of the City.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Location Start Date:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The start date of the first business activity registered at this location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Location End Date:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The most recent end date of all business activities at the location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Location:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Latitude and Longitude, if present, for this business location.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This ontology makes the most sense to urban city planners, or perhaps other business owners and entrepreneurs who want to open their own businesses around the city of Los Angeles. It may be helpful to see where there is a concentrated area of grocery markets, or retail stores, or restaurants; or an up-and-coming neighborhood with lots of businesses opening at similar start dates. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If I were to start over with the data-collection, I would try to include more useful information for the citizens of Los Angeles\u2013\u2013not just those with government jobs and political power. The dataset would have more user-friendly, specific categories based off the Primary NAICS Descriptions. For example, I noticed that the data on grocery and convenience stores is merged together with no distinctions. I would also make sure that the Latitude and Longitude is as accurate as possible because many locations lead to grey areas or the middle of the street on Google Maps. Better yet, it would be great if I could hyperlink the coordinates to a digital, interactive map (such as Google Maps or Waze Maps).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dataset of the Listing of Active Businesses from the City of L.A. is a listing of all active business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}