---
id: "govlab:project/project-docker-for-data"
type: "GovLab project"
title: "Docker for Data"
url: "https://thegovlab.org/project/project-docker-for-data"
authors: ["John Krauss"]
summary: "How to make open data accessible & usable?"
source: "The GovLab (thegovlab.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# Docker for Data

How to make open data accessible & usable?

## Background

Existing open data portals are focused on views of single data sets in the browser. This is great until you need to do deep analysis or build a business on it.

## Description

Docker for Data is a cloud-based open source toolkit to speed up the extraction and loading of large open datasets. It gives open data users a command that can install a broad variety of data sets into a SQL database directly. A user can load data like New York City’s deeds and mortgages directly into a powerful SQL database in just minutes instead of hours.

## Results and impact

Because Docker for Data archives the extracted data sets, it functions as a repository for usable open data. On Docker, you can find:

## Location

- Global

## Team

- [John Krauss](https://thegovlab.org/team.html#john-krauss)

## Additional resources

- [u201cDockeru201d for (open)data](http://www.thegovlab.org/static/files/docker-for-open-data.pdf)