{"id":1687,"date":"2017-10-23T13:19:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:19:20","slug":"week-3-listing-of-active-businesses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/23\/week-3-listing-of-active-businesses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 &#8211; Listing of Active Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I chose to analyze the dataset of <a href=\"https:\/\/data.lacity.org\/A-Prosperous-City\/Listing-of-Active-Businesses\/6rrh-rzua\/data\">\u201cListing of Active Businesses\u201d<\/a> which breaks down the listings of all active business \u201ccurrently registered\u201d with the Office of Finance. The dataset\u2019s ontology categorizes nearly 500,000 businesses divided into 16 columns reflecting on the following information: location account number, business name, Doing Business As (DBA) name, street address, city, zip code, location description, mailing address, mailing city, mailing zip code, NAICS (The self-reported North American Industry Classification System, used in classifying business establishments), primary NAICS description, council district, location start date, location end date, and location (geographical coordinates).<\/p>\n<p>This ontology would make most sense from the perspective of either a city planner or city developer as the data seems highly categorical, specifying not only the addresses but also the precise geographical coordinates. With the description of the business establishments, this information would be most useful for businesses with the interest of entering the market determining which competitors are in the area and where they are located. Alongside competitors, the information can also determine complementing businesses that may assist and aide development and growth.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to start over with data-collection and describe a completely different ontology, I would make the dataset more user friendly. Categorically organizing 500,000 businesses makes most sense using an excel spreadsheet, however the retrieval of information can be extremely mundane. A supplement to this dataset could also include a colourcoded map which provides a visual. With all the information already present in the dataset, a map could pinpoint exact locations while the colour coding helps determine the type of business and the concentration of types of businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I chose to analyze the dataset of \u201cListing of Active Businesses\u201d which breaks down the listings of all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","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\/1687","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\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}