Clean Plates
Health inspection reports for restaurants in Philadelphia were only available from a city-run database, making it very difficult for users to find the important information on each establishment. This project was designed to scrape and store every inspection reports for every restaurant in the city from 2014 to present day.
Users can now easily search for inspections by restaurant name, neighborhood or zip code. Inspections are split into violation categories and restaurants are compared to others in the area to allow users to view how clean each establishment is and has been in the past.
After the project launched, the City of Philadelphia changed the rules on health inspections based on the work done. Prior to the project, the reports were only posted online 30 days after the inspections, but have since been changed to one day, to be more transparent.