For our first blog post, we wanted to thank the community for taking the time to suggest and vote on datasets that you’d like to see. We’ve received 30 suggestions and over 300 votes on datasets as varied as transit data to library books. During the several weeks that DataSF has been live, we’ve had nearly 10,000 visitors from 104 countries and every state.

With your help, we’ve made history by providing the City & County of San Francisco with a new mechanism for gathering input from individuals using free open source technology. This initiative set out to share as much City data as possible with the public as well as provide an opportunity to vote and comment on datasets. While we have a long way to go, our goal is to help translate your suggestions into actual outcomes. To that end, we have two exciting pieces of news to share with you. First, Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an executive directive [PDF]that requires City departments to make non-confidential datasets available on DataSF. The executive directive also requires City departments to review suggestions made on DataSF and respond to his Office every quarter with status. Second, we are taking action with the suggestions on DataSF and have released the top requested dataset, street sweeping schedule.

Thank you again for participating in DataSF, sharing your ideas, and helping make San Francisco the most transparent City in our nation.

-The DataSF team