JupyterLab For Library Data Projects
Hosted Jupyter notebooks ( JupyterLab!) for Library data analysts with a Redmine account.
Summer Water Quality Data Project
Help build a water quality data repository for exploring one of our most important environmental issues. We’ll be collecting data to create statistical analyses and try to predict beach closures.
Summer Project Management Intern
For the Spring and Summer of 2018, The Data Library is recruiting a part time intern to support the Summer projects. This position will involve a range of activities that includes community engagement, outreach and project management. Project Management. Work with project teams to recruit participants, track progress and set up meetings. Outreach. Identify and … Read more
Summer 2018 Projects and Internships
For Spring and Summer 2018, the Data Library will be hosting summer analysts and data scientists to work on special projects. Special Social Analysis Projects Pursue special projects in social analysis with large, individual-level datasets like IPUMS, GSS and NLSY. Social Science students, or any student interested in applying data science and statistical techniques to … Read more
San Diego Data Knowledge Base
We’re working on building a new knowledge base, a collection of example Jupyter notebooks related to projects the Library has been working on. The notebooks include detailed analyses using Jupyter, Python, Pandas and other tools, with most of the notebooks covering crime and demographics. For instance, the Demographics and Business Loans notebooks shows how to fetch … Read more
Exploring San Diego Crime Data using Python – Workshop
Tonight at Downtown Works, SCALE San Diego and Open San Diego are hosting a workshop on analyzing crime data with Python, Pandas and Matplotlib. Unlike past analysis we done at the Library on San Diego Crime, this analysis uses data from the San Diego Police, rather than the whole county data from ARJIS, so it is more … Read more
Explore Society with Social Data
Tonight we’ll be meeting to talk about two important collections of survey data, The General Social Survey (GSS) and a broad collection of integrated survey datasets, IPUMS.org. Additionally, we’ll be meeting with David Lynn, founder of Mission Driven Finance, to talk about his volunteer data project to analyze business lending to minorities in San Diego county. In … Read more
Explore Social Issues with Microdata
In this Hands-On presentation, we’ll be exploring social issues using two sources of microdata: The General Social Survey , a 40 year survey program that asks a representative sample of Americans questions on a huge number of social issues, and IPUMS, a curated, processed collection of international survey and census data. Using these two sources … Read more
Mission Driven Credit Analysis
We’re excited to announce the first of our next round of social data projects. Mission Driven Finance is a San Diego impact investment fund that provides loans to nonprofits, social enterprises, and businesses that benefit the San Diego community. MDF is interested in helping businesses understand the regional lending landscape and advocating for improvements to make … Read more
Pro Bono Data Analysis This Summer
For Summer of 2017, The San Diego Regional Data Library will be running a data internship program, working on pro-bono data analysis projects for nonprofits, governments and journalists in San Diego County. If your organization has questions that can be answered with data, you can have an undergraduate data analyst work on your project, with … Read more