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Is there a way to select fields that are grayed out on the Socrata web client?

I am attempting to get the compared_to_national column for the readmission data located at Data.Medicare.gov This column is grayed out on the web interface making me think that it is a computed field or a join with another table.

$ curl https://data.medicare.gov/resource/7xux-kdpw? | grep national

shows that this value is not being returned at all even when everything is selected. Am I missing something here or is this data just not available?

Solution

  • Sorry for the late reply, but maybe I can still help out.

    The greyed out values are data that was incompatible with the selected datatype at import time. In the case of Readmissions Complications and Deaths - Hospital, that's textual data that the data owner attempted to import into a Numeric column type.

    Unfortunately it isn't queryable, but I'll let the account manager for CMS know so that hopefully they can have that fixed.