Inspections & Certificates

Data Description: This data set contains all inspections issued/performed by City of Cincinnati Departments (including Buildings & Inspections; Cincinnati Fire Department; Cincinnati Health Department; Cincinnati Parks; and Trade/Development), as well as Inspections Bureau Inc (IBI) and Hamilton County departments.

Inspections range from electrical surveys, to swimming pools/spas, to elevator inspections, daycare inspections, and more. This data covers inspections since 1999 through present day.

Data Creation: All data is input by respective agencies, and maintained/stored by Cincinnati Area Geographic Information Systems (CAGIS), and is additionally available on CAGIS Property Activity Report website: http://cagismaps.hamilton-co.org/PropertyActivity/cagisreport

Data Created By: CAGIS

Refresh Frequency: Daily

Data Dictionary: A data dictionary providing definitions of columns and attributes is available as an attachment to this dataset.

Processing: The City of Cincinnati is committed to providing the most granular and accurate data possible. In that pursuit the Office of Performance and Data Analytics facilitates standard processing to most raw data prior to publication. Processing includes but is not limited: address verification, geocoding, decoding attributes, and addition of administrative areas (i.e. Census, neighborhoods, police districts, etc.).

Data Usage: For directions on downloading and using open data please visit our How-to Guide: https://data.cincinnati-oh.gov/dataset/Open-Data-How-To-Guide/gdr9-g3ad

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 \"cincinnati-oh-gov/inspections-certificates-ivda-umw7\".\"inspections_certificates\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.