PLACES and 500 Cities: Data Dictionary

This dataset provides a data dictionary for PLACES and 500 Cities releases. For each measure, the data dictionary provides the measure ID, measure full and short name, measure category ID and name, year of BRFSS data used to generate the estimate by release year, and frequency BRFSS collects data about the measure.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"cdc-gov/places-and-500-cities-data-dictionary-m35w-spkz\".\"places_and_500_cities_data_dictionary\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.