Data Analysis For Your Mission

Sponsor a Project in Our Student Data Analysis Contest Give your nonprofit, agency or news organization valuable data-driven insights by sponsoring a project at our student data analysis contest.  The San Diego Regional Data Library, the SDSU Society for Statisticians and Actuaries and Teradata are organizing a data analysis contest to aid nonprofits, journalists and government agencies in making … Read more

When Will Data.gov be Useful?

Data.gov is the top level data search system for the US, with references to over 130,000 datasets from federal and state agencies. And yet, I’ve never successfully used it for finding data. Here is an example search for “Diabetes Rates”:   So, we look for diabetes, and get births, 22 year old mortality data from … Read more

Tableau Workbook for SWITRS

Here is the Tableau workbook that we’ll be using for the SPJ Hacks/Hackers Data Show event tonight. You can also get links to all of the documentation from our data warehouse.

Veterans Density by County

Voice of San Diego has published a story we supported, a fact-check about the density of veterans in San Diego County. You can get all of the data behind the story — including schemas and SQL queries ! — in our data warehouse.  

Learn Data Analysis Techniques

Once you’ve got the basic skills in programming and statistics, the best way to learn data analysis is to do it. So, we’re developing a practical experience program for aspiring data analysts. The program is in the pilot phase with a small set of students, but you can read about how it works on the … Read more

Why is Open Data Hard?

Last year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development commissioned a report to study the feasibility of creating a nationwide database of parcel information. This is a difficult task because the parcels are usually maintained by the counties, and the US has about 3200 counties. The resulting report is remarkably thorough, including a description of … Read more

Q&A On Open Data

The Voice of San Diego is running a Q&A regarding Open Data, which just happens to involve an interview with the Director of the Library.

New Data Repository Released

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.

Civic Hacking for the Greater Good!

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