New Data Repository Released

Today we are releasing an update to our data repository, at http://data.sandiegodata.org. This release is based on CKAN 2.1, the same software used to run Data.Gov, one of the largest data sites in the world. The software is more capable than the older version, and it is much more attractive, with better visual design and organization.

Six Years of Crime Data

Today we are releasing the processed version of six years of San Diego County crime data. We received this data last month from SANDAG, and have augmented the source data with city and and neighborhood codes. The data is released as both CSV and ESRI Shape files with one file per year. To download the data, visit … Read more

Civic Hacking for the Greater Good!

Use your hacking skills for a better San Diego! Open San Diego, San Diego Code For America Brigade, Cali IT2,  and OpenGeo are sponsoring a Civic Day of Hacking.  The San Diego Regional Data Library will be presenting many of our datasets and running a crime analysis project, so join us if you’d like to … Read more

Worse than Singing about Economics: Inappropriate Visualizations

Of the many versions of the famous quote that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” is that “writing about music is as illogical as singing about economics.” Both of these activities are actually quite common. Dancing about architecture is a sport of irony, and  not only are there songs about economics, the appropriately named … Read more

Crime at Street Segments

A few weeks ago, we received crime incident data from SANDAG for the years from 2007 to March of 2013. The data has the location of the crime listed as a “hundred block,” so a crime at 1435 Main street would be listed at 1400 Main. Since we don’t know where the crime occurred on the block – we … Read more