Economic Development from Nighttime Lights
Study how business regulations affect economic development by analyzing satellite imagery.
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San Diego Data Jobs Marketplace
San Diego data jobs marketplace, on the Data Science Alliance Slack channel.
Civic Tech Opportunity
If you are interested in civic technology and data, The Atlas is recruiting for a data engineer. The Atlas runs a network for state and local government officials to share best practices, and helps startups sell services to governments. A lot of the system in involves technology case studies that illustrate best practices around tech … Read more
SCALE Urban Innovation Challenge 2021
SCALE Urban Innovation Challenge 2021. Use your data, software and technology skills to help small businesses recover from COVID and thrive in 2021.
Exploring Inequality with Survey Data
For tonight’s meetup about working with survey data to study inequality we will be working with data from the Survey of Consumer Finances in these two Google Colaboratory notebooks: Getting Started with the Survey of Consumer Finance Basic SCL Descriptive Statistics The Data Library also has an extract file of the data used in these … Read more
Getting Started with Crime Analysis
Next Tuesday the Data Library will be hosting a presentation on how to get started with analyzing crime data. This will be a hands-on presentation, with demonstrations using multiple tools, including: Google Colaboratory QGIS Tableau Public If you want to follow along, click on the links above and QGIS and Tableau. For Google Colaboratory, you … Read more
San Diego in Numbers, A Community for Data Questions and Answers
San Diego In Numbers is a project of the San Diego Regional Data Library that aims to help San Diegans get data driven insights about San Diego County. The project collects data questions from nonprofits, journalists and government agencies and organizes student and volunteer professional analysts to answer them. The best answers will be written … Read more
COVID-19 Disaster Depends on the Difference of One Day
One of the simplest models of infection is the SIR model, a set of differential equations that describes how people in a population infect each other and eventually recover, transitioning between three compartments, from Susceptible to Infected to Recovered, although, because the model uses “Recovered” as the category for people who have died, some people … Read more
Has San Diego’s Coronavirus Accounting Changed?
The three coronavirus metrics that most jurisdictions are publishing are cases, hospitalizations and deaths. The number of cases depends on the extent of testing, but the number of hospitalizations and deaths do not, at least not to the same extent, because while there are a lot of people who may have an infection and not … Read more
View from Streetlamps: San Diegans are Staying Home
Pedestrian counts from San Diego’s smart streetlamps indicates that San Diegans responded strongly to stay at home orders, but the data has some weaknesses.