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Public Health Research & Academia
Restaurant inspection data, research-ready
Cross-jurisdiction, normalized, longitudinal â the dataset public health researchers actually need.
Health department portals are built for one-at-a-time consumer lookups, not for bulk research. We aggregate inspection records across dozens of jurisdictions, normalize them to a consistent schema, and deliver them in machine-readable formats. The result: a clean, citable dataset spanning years of inspection history across major U.S. metros â ready for regression analysis, outbreak modeling, and peer-reviewed publication.
The problem today
Sound familiar?
Portal lookups are one at a time â research requires thousands
Pulling inspection records for a city study means clicking through hundreds of portal pages, each with its own format. There's no bulk export, no API, no standardized schema across jurisdictions.
Cross-city comparison is nearly impossible without normalization
Boston calls them "critical violations," Chicago calls them "serious violations," LA uses a letter grade system. Before you can analyze anything, you're spending weeks on data cleaning.
FOIA timelines blow past grant cycles and publication deadlines
Formal public records requests for bulk data can take 90â180 days â if they're fulfilled at all. We've already aggregated and normalized what you need.
Bulk inspection data, normalized and ready to analyze
Years of restaurant health inspection records across major U.S. cities, standardized to a consistent schema and delivered in CSV, JSON, or Parquet. Citable as a data source in publications.
Pricing
Transparent pricing. No hidden fees. Cancel anytime.
Dataset License
One city, current year â good for a single study
- âFull inspection + violation records for one metro
- âCurrent calendar year
- âCSV or JSON delivery within 48 hours
- âData use agreement included
- âCitable as a named data source
- âOne revision request if schema questions arise
Longitudinal Access
One city, 3â5 year history + monthly refresh
- âEverything in Dataset License
- âFull historical archive (3â5 years)
- âMonthly data refresh for ongoing studies
- âMulti-year panel format for trend analysis
- âViolation trajectory tracking per establishment
- âPriority response to schema and coverage questions
Institutional License
Unlimited cities, all years, team access
- âAll covered U.S. metros (20+)
- âFull historical archive across all markets
- âUp to 5 researchers on the same license
- âDirect API access for automated pipeline ingestion
- âCustom geographic extracts (county, zip, census tract)
- âDedicated data contact for methodology questions
âWe were spending two weeks per city scraping and cleaning inspection data before we could even start analysis. This saved us that step entirely â and the schema documentation made the methods section of our paper much easier to write.â
Request a sample dataset for your research
Tell us your city, date range, and what you're studying and we'll pull a representative sample â including the schema and variable documentation â so you can see exactly what's in the data before committing.