The Socrata Education offers several live or on-demand training courses for both end user use and navigation of the platform and datasets; how to create and manage your datasets; and how to utilize the Socrata API to extract and ingest the data into your own CMS/JMS.

The Socrata educational training courses can be found here.  The Socrata recommended courses are as follows:

• Intro to the World of Data on Socrata (13 minutes, on-demand)
• Create and Manage Your Dataset on Socrata (16 minutes, on-demand)
• Shape and Join Data with SOQL Query Editor (1 hour, live or on-demand)

The more in-depth API or developer training is located here.  The Socrata recommended courses are as follows:

• Explore Data with Charts on Socrata (1 hour, live or on-demand)
• Map Your Data on Socrata (23 minutes on-demand, 1 hour live)
• Tell a Story with Socrata Perspectives (16 minutes on-demand)

Other recommended training courses are as follows:

Transform Data with Socrata Query Language

Data Analysis Tools and Connections on Socrata