QA Admin What if you got really creative with data visualization and represented the street lights of La Jolla and Pacific Beach with the balloons that are used to make animals? It might like like this: This image is actually from a dataset I’ve created showing, for every 10m^2 area of the City of San Diego, … Read more
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.
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
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
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
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
SANDAG Senior Research Analyst Mike Calandra sent us some traffic data updates for our Data As a Public Good report. I’m always thrilled when I get to communicate directly with agency analysts, and having them write to me is like an early Christmas. In our Data as a Public Good report several interviewees reported that … Read more
Here is some eye candy, a population density map of Pacific Beach and surrounding neighborhoods. This map was created with a lot of Python code, using the 2010 census shapefiles for census blocks, setting a value for each block as the population of the block divided by the area of the block, and rasterizing all … Read more
I’m spending the morning at Qualcomm for the Python Data Analysis Workshop, run by Dave Cook of the San Diego Python User group. I’m presenting about using Python to analyze crime and census data. If you like pretty pictures, the presentation has plenty of them: Analyzing Crime and Census Data Presentation.
We’ve released a new report, Municipal Open Data Policies. The best way to ensure that San Diego area nonprofits and citizens get useful data is for local governments to adopt Open Data policies. These policies, which have been implemented in many cities around the country, mandate that cities publish data. So, instead of fighting for months … Read more