March 08, 2015 / by Open Data Portal Team / In Open Data , Data Portal

Modified Building Violations update process

We have upgraded the mechanism that updates the Building Violations dataset every day.  The main visible effect of this change is that the record counts for 2013-2015 have increased by about 80 percent.  We found some modifications and new building violations were not updating or being correctly added on the portal but are now doing a complete re-query of the source database and complete replace of the dataset each time we update.

The last version of the dataset before the change in update mechanism is visible at https://data.cityofchicago.org/id/f4ic-vjbw.  This link may expire at some point so if you need the records, we recommend extracting and saving them.