Data for Social Development
The San Diego Regional Data Library works with nonprofits, governments and journalists to answer data driven questions
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Our Data Insights Service is a question and answer forum for data driven insights about San Diego area demographics, environment business and public safety issues. Ask a question for our analysts to solve, or contribute what you know with an answer.
Data Repository
The Data Repository holds data packages for a wide variety of topics, and larger collections for Education and Urban Planning
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Blog Posts
PyDataLA Presentation
I’m presenting tomorrow at the PyData Los Angeles 2019 conference, on the topic of “Tackling Homelessness with Open Data”. I hope you can join us there, but if not, here is a link to the presentation in multiple formats. If you are…
Nationwide Violent Crime Incidents
Here is a dataset with 4.3M violent crime incidents, from police departments across the country, including San Diego. It isn’t processed well enough to just load into data analysis tools, but it is more detailed than is available anywhere else.
Introduction to Homeless Data Analysis
Learn to map homelessness and compare to crime and pedestrian traffic, with Python and Pandas.
Downtown Homeless Data Released
42,000 geographic positions for homeless sleepers in Downtown San Diego, over 62 months.
Homelessness Data Conversion
The San Diego Data Library is building a detailed data set about Downtown homelessness using 5 years of hand-marked paper maps. The conversion process is human-powered, and we need you help to finish the conversion. When we are finished, we will have…
Small Slow and Varied Presentation
I’ll be presenting at the Data Engineering Meeting tonight, Thursday 5 Sept, on the topic of how the Data Library uses the Metatab data packaging system for processing the data we use in analysis. You can download the presentation.
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Brandon Burnette
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