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L.A. introduces public open data website

June 2, 2014
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti explains DataLA at city hall. (The Korea Times, Kim Young-jae)

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti explains DataLA at city hall. (Kim Young-jae / The Korea Times)

The city government of Los Angeles unveiled an open data website Saturday to increase transparency to residents.

Introduced by Mayor Eric Garcetti to the 1,500 in attendance at a technology and innovation conference at city hall, the site, data.lacity.org, will offer raw collected data by the city.

Previously unavailable data will include numbers of lost animals and locations of bike lanes and areas that need cleaning due to graffiti.

DataLA is still in progress and will be completed within the next six months. Currently, about 200 sets of data are available for search.

Garcetti also promoted Hackathon, during which students and programmers were invited to use publicly available data from the city to create apps that would help residents.

City Controller Ron Galperin said the conference’s aim was to become a starting point in which 21st-century technology could help run the city.