San Diego Smart Streetlamp Training

I’m in training this afternoon for using the API for San Diego’s CityIQ Smart street lamps.  These street lamps have cameras and computers that can detect and report: Parking, cars moving into and out of a parking space Count and speed of cars in street Pedestrian counts, speed and direction Environmental measurements: temperature, humidity I’ll … Read more

Hacks and Hackers: Support data journalism with data analysis

Test your skills and help SDSU journalism students with a class project.  The Data Library will be helping  SDSU Digital Journalism students with an interesting joint project: students ask data questions, we give data answers, and they write articles. You can test your data skills, and maybe learn a few new skills, by helping to answer … Read more

How to Write a Good Data Question

Our Insights Service is a Question and Answer site for data questions, to make it easier for civic-minded San Diegans to better understand our local issues. However, it can be difficult to ask a good question that our analysts can answer. Here are some tips for writing a good data question. A good data question … Read more

Insights Q&A Service

Get answers to data questions about San Diego at our new Insights Q&A service.