QA Admin The Library has been quiet lately, mostly because the Director doesn’t have time to properly manage projects, and because he’s not very good at it. So, we’d like to find a volunteer to manage projects. This is a volunteer role that would involve: Talking to nonprofits and journalists about data needs Recruiting other volunteers for data … Read more
Collect and analyze data about the food system in San Diego county. The San Diego Food System Alliance’s Healthy Food Access Working Group is developing an indicator library to analyze food access issues, and we need your help to locate datasets, wrangle them into useable shape, and create visualizations. The work is similar to the topics … Read more
Collect and analyze data about the food system in San Diego county. The San Diego Food System Alliance’s Healthy Food Access Working Group is developing an indicator library to analyze food access issues, and we need your help to locate datasets, wrangle them into useable shape, and create visualizations. The work is similar to the topics … Read more
To announce the arrival of a new set of crime data, our next meetup will be a mini data contest, with a $100 prize for the best student analysis. In this meeting, we will present the new Crime Incident dataset and talk about how to link it to other social datasets. After the presentation, we’ll … Read more
When we last requested crime data from SANDAG, 3 years ago, it took four months of negotiation to get them to admit they could produce it, and two more months to get the price down to a reasonable amount. Last week when I requested an update, I got one clarification email, then a phone call, … Read more
The Data Library works primarily with journalists and nonprofits, but until recently, I hadn’t fully realized how different the processes are in these two environments. We’d been following two different processes, but didn’t have names for them, so it is worthwhile to give the two contexts names, so we can be sure we are working in a process … Read more
Last week the Library worked with Wendy Fry at NBC7 to analyze GPS records of street sweeping and parking violations. We haven’t got the data online yet — it’s about 3GB, 11M GPS records — but let us know if you are interested in accessing it. A condensed version of the data is available as a … Read more
Big Data Hackathon on Oct 3 at 9AM at SDSU! On October 3, the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age will host a Big Data Hackathon at San Diego State University. Contestants will use data analysis and programming to solve civic problems related to water conservation, disaster recovery and crime prevention. Visit the Devpost website for … Read more
Finally, our legislators are getting below the surface of the Open Data issue and addressing one of the deeper plains: Open Data is nearly useless when it is delivered in PDF. To address this problem, our very own Brian Maienschein (well, the inland “us” ) has introduced AB 169, which mandates that when agencies publish open data, … Read more
We completed our 2015 Data Contest with final presentations and winners at the awards ceremony on Tuesday. Here are the winners and their presentations: UCSD MAS Data Science, Time and Space Analysis of Food Distribution Presentation Narrative irHacker, California Suspensions Presentation Flash and Shadow, A Visual Geographical Study on Location, Availability, Public Transportations and Crime Exposure … Read more