Overview
The Socrata Open Data API allows you to programmatically access a wealth of open data resources from governments, non-profits, and NGOs around the world. Scout is a data discovery tool for open data portals. It is an open source product that eases the search and curation of thematically related and joinable datasets to broaden the application of open data to uncover new insights. Scout is designed to help surface datasets in open data portals that might have escaped your attention before.
Features and Benefits:
a. Saves valuable time b. Quick access to large, accurate and real-time data c. Empowers informed decision making
Highlights
- Data is available from more than 120 public repositories that has 8000+ Datasets
- You will be able to access open data resources from governments, non-profits, and NGOs around the world
Details
Typical total price
$0.046/hour
Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.medium Recommended | $0.00 | $0.046 | $0.046 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
No Refunds, For more details contact via the support email
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
initial scout version with standard data portals available in AMI formats
Additional details
Usage instructions
Instructions for Using the Scout Application:
The Scout application currently provides 120 open dataset portals, and the updated version will support custom datasets as well. Elastic Search has been deployed using Docker containers, and all available data portals will be imported directly from the Postgres database. For more information on how to populate your local database, please refer to the following link: https://github.com/digital-alpha/da-scout#25-populating-your-local-database .
The frontend and backend of the application can be accessed directly from the home directory at /home/ubuntu/da-scout/ on ports 3000 and 5000, respectively.
To start, restart, or stop the application, use the following commands:
- sudo systemctl start customscout.service
- sudo systemctl restart customscout.service
- sudo systemctl stop customscout.service
If you wish to make any custom changes to the service, you can modify the file at /etc/systemd/system/customscout.service. Note that custom app start and stop scripts have been provided for changing the instance public and private IPs in the packages file. Do not modify them manually.
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Support Information
Digital Alpha provides support for 2 weeks including basic installation and configuration assistance, as well as the troubleshooting of issues encountered with installation, configuration, and operation.
For any support or issues, please contact: support@digital-alpha.com
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