Marin County Food Facility Inspection Records from 2014

Marin County provides detailed records of food facility inspections, updated daily. The dataset begins on January 1, 2014, and is published by data.marincounty.gov. It includes inspection results, violations, placard colors, and geocoded addresses for each facility.

Use Cases

• Predicting Inspection Result based on Inspection Type, Inspection Frequency, and past Violation Code using classification models.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of violations using Address Geocode, City/Town, and Zip Code for geospatial mapping.
• Identifying trends in major violations over time using Inspection Date, Is Major Violation, and Violation Description for time-series analysis.
• Assessing inspector consistency and correction rates using Inspector, Corrected On Site, and Correct By Date for operational analytics.

Strengths

• Data is updated daily, suggesting a commitment to timeliness.
• Contains 29 distinct columns including detailed violation descriptions, inspector comments, and geocoded addresses.
• Temporal coverage is explicitly stated, beginning January 1, 2014.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description notes that inspectors' recent inspections may not be fully entered at the time of update, indicating a potential lag in data completeness.
• License information is unknown, which may restrict certain uses.

Provenance

Source

data.marincounty.gov

Collection Method

Likely collected by county health inspectors during routine and follow-up facility inspections.

Time Range

From January 1, 2014 onward.

Freshness

Updated daily; last update recorded as 2026-04-03 08:00:05.

Geography

Marin County, California, USA.