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Where San Diego Parties

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San Diego’s computerized street lamps reveal that San Diegans party where they should be working.

Sharing Jupyter Notebooks with Google Colab

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Google Colab offers hosted Jupyter notebooks that are integrated with Google Drive and Github. The customized Jupyter Notebook application has some nice features, and a few quirks, but has one feature that I’ve wanted for years: comments. This version of Jupyter Notebook seems perfect for collaborating on notebooks, which is otherwise very difficult. Here is … Read more

Big Data Hackathon Workshop

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For this workshop, you will need to install: QGIS. Also, install OpenLayers Tableau Review of Data Sources Data Lists for the Hackathon Census Reporter Healthy Places Index Sangis Planning Database Major Concepts Census, Tracts and Zip Codes Joins: Attribute and Spatial Datasets to load Census Reporter. Median Household Income in the Past 12 Months San … Read more

2019 SDSU Big Data Hackathon

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Design and build innovative products for “Smart Living” and win $3,550 in prizes at the SDSU Big Data Hackathon, March 6 and 9.

Hacks and Hackers: Support data journalism with data analysis

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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

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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

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