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#APIs/Data Resources

##Code for America

• [Code for America Source Repositories] (https://github.com/codeforamerica?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=+only%3Asources+)

##2016 Codapalooza NDCH Resources

• Tampa ArgGIS data - City of Tampa Open Data Share including datasets for Police, Infrastructure, Planning & more
• Tampa ArgGIS Codapalooza data - Hillsborough county special build
• [Tampa Bay Homeless Resource Wiki] (http://tampabayhomeless.wikia.com/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Homeless_Resource_Wiki) -The 'Tampa Bay Homeless Resource Wiki is a a collaborative website where advocates, service providers, people in need and people helping those in need can share and find information on services, resources, news and volunteer opportunities to end homelessness in Tampa Bay. It was started by the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County to provide a central point of collaboration and a channel to disseminate all types of information and tools to use in helping homeless citizens and meeting the ultimate goal of Places for People - The 10-year Plan to End Homelessness.
• [HUD Exchange - Find Housing Assistance and Help for Homeless Persons] (https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/resources-for-homeless-persons/)
• [SAMHSA - Homelessness Programs and Resources] (http://www.samhsa.gov/homelessness-programs-resources) - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration resources

##Florida Data

• [ArcGIS Open Data portal] (http://www25.swfwmd.state.fl.us/arcgiswmis/rest/services/OpenData)
• [Florida Public Datasets -Civic Dashboards] (http://catalog.opendata.city/organization/florida) -includes datasets for People, Safety, Education, Housing and Economic Indicators
• [ArcGIS Open Data Portal] (http://opendata.arcgis.com/) - searchable database of open data across multiple categories and communities; dependent on communities sharing data, but possible data gems may be uncovered
• [Open Data Network - Florida] (http://www.opendatanetwork.com/region/0400000US12/Florida/population/population/2013?) - Data on Population, Education, Jobs, Economy, Health
• [Florida Open Government] (http://floridaopengov.org/) - payroll and vending data
• [Florida State Offender Scrape - 2012] (https://github.com/haykuro/FloridaStateOffenderScrape)

#Federal Data

• [HUD Datasets] (http://data.hud.gov/data_sets.html) - HUD’s Enterprise Data Listing in JSON machine readable format.
• [USA.gov for Developers] (https://www.usa.gov/developer) - Software developers and researchers can use these APIs and data feeds to help people find useful government information.
• [Healthcare.gov- Marketplace] (https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace) - an unofficial bug tracker and pull request target for fixes to healthcare.gov/marketplace - This repository attempts to be a working fork of the marketplace. You should be able to run this on a local web server and access healthcare.gov in the same way.
• [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on GitHub] (https://github.com/CMSgov)
• [Small Business Administration Datasets] (https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/sba-performance/open-government/digital-sba/open-data/open-data-sources) - list of all SBA data sets that have been made available to the public to date. "In support of the Open Data initiative, SBA will continue to release more data sets on an ongoing basis. These data sets are also available from www.sba.gov/data.json and on the OpenData.gov site at http://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=SBA."
• [Data.gov Source Code and Issue Tracker] (https://github.com/GSA/data.gov)
• [US General Services Administration on GitHub] (U.S. General Services Administration )
• [US Government APIs] (https://theunitedstates.io/APIs/)
• [Open Skills API] (https://swaggerhub.com/api/matthewgee/openskills/1.0.0) - For the Open Skills project which is working to make public the skills necessary for every job in America—to map the DNA or genome of the U.S. labor market, with the intent of providing high-value information to improve education programs, reduce the skills gap, improve matching efficiency in local labor markets, and promote entrepreneurship.
• [U.S. Department Veterans Affairs Open Data Portal] (http://www.va.gov/data/)
• [National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients - U.S. Census Bureau] (https://www.census.gov/prod/www/nshapc/NSHAPC4a.html)

#How Tos

• [Introduction to APIs in Government] (http://18f.github.io/API-All-the-X/pages/introduction_to_APIs_in_government) -The /Developer Program, a service of GSA's 18F team, seeks to provide comprehensive support for any federal agency engaged in the production or use of APIs.

#Useful Websites

• [Feeding America Tampa Bay] (http://www.feedingamericatampabay.org/)
• [Suntopia] (http://www.suntopia.org/) - Extensive directories of social service programs for individuals and families in need, searchable by zip code & providing the option for families in need to create their own pages with support requests
• [Healthcare.gov for Developers] (https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/)
• [GovTrack for Developers] (https://www.govtrack.us/developers) - "Part of GovTrack’s core mission is to make legislative data freely available so that others can build new tools to promote civic education and engagement. GovTrack applies the principles of open data to legislative transparency. We screen scrape a variety of official government websites each day and make the resulting normalized database of legislative information available for free for reuse — in bulk (since 2005) and with an API (since 2012). Our database is the foundation for dozens of other open government websites."
• [The Opportunity Project] (http://opportunity.census.gov/) - The Opportunity Project expands access to opportunity for all Americans by putting data and digital tools in the hands of families, communities, and local leaders, to help them navigate information about the resources they need to thrive.
• [Workforce Data Initiative] (http://www.dataatwork.org/) - The Workforce Data Initiative is a partnership between the White House, the University of Chicago, and public and private partners to enable interoperability, facilitate an open taxonomy, and create easy access points for open data underlying jobs, skills, training, and wages.
• [Health and Human Services - Homelessness Resources] (http://www.hhs.gov/programs/social-services/homelessness/index.html)
• [National Coalition for the Homeless] (http://nationalhomeless.org/)

##Interesting Websites (and Potentially Useful)

• [US Open Data Usage] (https://us-open-data.silk.co/) - Interactive Database on U.S. Companies' Usage of Open Government Data
• [How to use APIs from Twitter, Google & Facebook to find data, ideas] (http://www.poynter.org/2011/how-to-use-apis-from-google-facebook-twitter-to-find-data-ideas/141786/) - Just what it says, with links to Twitter, FB and other social media APIs
• [Programmable Web API Directory] (http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory) -Browse the world's largest API repository

##Good Reads

• [Beyond Traffic: The Smart Tampa Vision] (http://www.tampasdowntown.com/userfiles/files/Smart%20City%20Challenge__The%20Smart%20Tampa%20Vision_02-04-16.pdf) -Feb. 2016 Report from City of Tampa
• [Open Data in Florida] (http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/symposium/2015/p-McIntyre.pdf) - 2014 Report by the Florida Agency on State Technology
• [State Open Data Policies and Portals] (https://www.datainnovation.org/2014/08/state-open-data-policies-and-portals/) -This report provides a snapshot of states’ efforts to create open data policies and portals and ranks states on their progress. The six top-scoring states are Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, and Utah.
• [How Can Homeless People Afford Cell Phones?] (http://homelesshub.ca/blog/how-can-homeless-people-afford-cell-phones)