City of Boulder, CO Open Data Videos, 6 Aug 2021

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From YouTube: Utilizing Open Data Dashboards on a Mobile Device

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Utilizing Open Data Dashboards on a Mobile Device

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Hi, my name is katie bridges, I'm a senior data analyst with the city of boulder's I.t department, and today I'm going to be talking about navigating open data dashboards on a mobile device. Another video has been created on navigating open data dashboards on a desktop device and that one again focuses on this same dashboard. Our boulder police department, offenses on a mobile device which what we're previewing here is an iphone 6, 7 or 8..

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What will happen is the main screen will be a paired down version of what you would see in desktop. It will only be map information on the left hand. Side of the page.

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You will see a small arrow that you you'll be able to click on with your finger on your phone on your mobile device or your ipad, and we have a few more limited options on the mobile version than we do on the desktop version and that's to make sure that the functionality and experience on your phone is better because it is going to be harder to navigate through more data on a mobile device.

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And so you have a few more limited options, and so, if you want expanded options, you can always view this on a desktop on mobile. The two filters you will have will be for a specific date, so you could look for the past seven days. You could look for the past 30 90 or choose on a calendar specific dates you are interested in and you can also choose offense types. So if you were interested in a particular type of offense, you could choose that I'm going to go ahead and collapse.

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This left hand side here, so we are looking at all offenses that have occurred in the last seven days. Within the mobile view map you still have the search functionality, so you could search for a particular location, as we did in the desktop view. If I chose to search for the boulder public library, I would have these options pop up. I'm going to choose our main library at arapahoe and I can see the offenses that have occurred around there.

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If I click on a particular dot in the mobile view. What will happen is I will see the type of offense that it was so it will say, motor vehicle theft. If I want information on this motor vehicle theft, I actually need to click on the title of that offense and I will get more information about it. So I can see here that on july 29th at 9 05 am on the 1600 block of broadway.

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There is a motor vehicle theft again, if I just click on a point, all I will see is the offense type to get more information about that offense. I need to click on the offense type itself.

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That is the functionality of the map on mobile. There is another tab at the bottom that is, charts.

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Charts will give you the total number of of offenses over the time period selected, so we've had 89 offenses over the past seven days.

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This is giving us a trend over those seven days, so we can see over that time period when we saw the most offenses and when we saw the least, and it will also show the top five over those seven days. So if we chose to filter this and go back past 30, we would see the line chart, change the total number of offenses change and the top five offenses change.

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That would also be reflected on our map. We would see more points and if I zoom back out we'll see all of the points for the past 30 days again, the functionality on mobile is fairly limited and that is to maximize the experience on mobile for more functionality feel free to watch the video on the bpd offenses dashboard for desktop.