Welcome to Water Data Labs

Water Data Labs is an experimental site that exposes tools and technologies in development by the USGS Water Data for the Nation software team.

Users can explore and test experimental products on labs before they are incorporated into production systems. Some of the services, tools and visualizations that seen here will eventually make to the core waterdata.usgs.gov or waterservices.usgs.gov sites, but some may not.

Products hosted on waterdata labs will include:

• Web services that do not have a stable API

• Experimental visualizations or dashboards

• Data integration prototypes

• Experimental datasets and data integrations

Please explore these tools, use them, and contact us with questions or comments. The code behind this site and the applications can be found on Github, tagged with usgs-waterdata-labs. Pull requests and new issues are always welcome!

• National Integrated Water Availability Assessments-Concept Map

  

  A demonstration map that shows the latest available daily estimates of natural water storage for approximately 110,000 regions across the lower forty-eight states

• Hydro-Network Linked Data Index

  

  The Hydro Network Linked Data Index (NLDI) puts a restful application programming interface (API) in front of the National Hydrolography dataset. Now, instead of needing to be a GIS professional, any web developer can build tools against the core data in the NHD in a scalable, workable way.

• WDFN Tableau Data Connector

  

  The Water Data for the Nation (WDFN) Tableau Web Data Connector (WDC) is designed for users of the Tableau software who want to seamlessly integrate USGS Water data into their analytics operations.

• Graph Image API

  

  The graph image API allows users to download an image version of the new dynamic hydrograph that is on the next generation monitoring location pages.