Bloomington Animal Care and Control data is available from the Bloomington city government’s data portal, BClear. The Animal Care and Control Division has prepared two data sets that the public may use to understand how the city handles animal welfare:
- Annual Statistics (2004-2019) - these data represent high level annual statistics for the division, which includes revenue, budgets, staffing, counts of animal intakes and movements;
- Adoptions (2018-Present) - these data represent animal intake, adoption, and control records maintained by the division. This is a complex, messy data set that tracks individual stories of animals taken in by the city.
This team will be working with both data sets. This notebook will provide a description of each data set, and any data processing that will facilitate analysis and visualization by team members that can be updated, re-used, and shared with others!
The Annual Statistics data is great for those interested in practicing some basic implementing data visualizations with a tidy data set.
The Adoptions data set is much larger and complex than the annual statistics, with over 12,000 intake records. The table is a roll-up of an internal data base, and includes both redundant data and some potentially misleading fields.
Example analysis and visualizations might include:
- Description of each animal's time with the Animal Care and Control,
- Descriptive, temporal, and other exploratory analysis of species managed by the division.
- Identify the kinds of animals that are brought into the shelter and why;
- Identify trends of intakes, returns, adoptions, fosters, and euthanization...
- by species and breed, age groups, or intake and return reasons or movement types
- Visualize pathways through the shelter by animals
- Model animal outcomes