Data And Analysis For Civic and Social Development
The San Diego Regional Data Library works with nonprofits, governments and journalists to answer data driven questions
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. See the announcement post for details.
Project Management Intern
The Data Library is recruiting a project management intern for a paid summer position. See the position posting for how to apply.
Knowledge Base
Visit the Knowledge Base for detailed analysis of social issues, with downloadable Jupyter notebooks.
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Blog
Age-Friendly Communities
Consumer Advocates for RCFE Reform (CARR) works to improve the quality of residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFE) by making public RCFE records and reports...
read moreAge Friendly Communities Project
At tomorrow night's meeting, we'll be kicking off two new data projects. The first is the Health Food Access project, previously announced, and the second is the Age Friendly Communities project, for which we've just posted the project page. In this project we will...
read moreWrangling Data For Social Projects
Next week we'll be kicking off two new data projects, and a big part of these projects will be finding data, documenting it, and preparing it in a consistent way for analysis, a process known as data wrangling. I've been developing software for wrangling social data...
read moreWanted: Data Library Project Manager
The Library has been quiet lately, mostly because the Director doesn't have time to properly manage projects, and because he's not very good at it. So, we'd like to find a volunteer to manage projects. This is a volunteer role that would involve: Talking to...
read moreHealthy Food Access Data Library Project
Collect and analyze data about the food system in San Diego county. The San Diego Food System Alliance's Healthy Food Access Working Group is developing an indicator library to analyze food access issues, and we need your help to locate datasets, wrangle them into...
read moreHealthy Food Access Data Library Project
Collect and analyze data about the food system in San Diego county. The San Diego Food System Alliance's Healthy Food Access Working Group is developing an indicator library...
read moreCrime and Community Data Challenge
To announce the arrival of a new set of crime data, our next meetup will be a mini data contest, with a $100 prize for the best student analysis. In this meeting, we will present the new Crime Incident dataset and talk about how to link it to other social datasets....
read moreNew Crime Data
When we last requested crime data from SANDAG, 3 years ago, it took four months of negotiation to get them to admit they could produce it, and two more months to get the price down to a reasonable amount. Last week when I requested an update, I got one clarification...
read moreData Project Context: Journalism vs Nonprofits
The Data Library works primarily with journalists and nonprofits, but until recently, I hadn't fully realized how different the processes are in these two environments. We'd been following two different processes, but didn't have names for them, so it is worthwhile to...
read moreStreet Sweeping and GPS Data
Last week the Library worked with Wendy Fry at NBC7 to analyze GPS records of street sweeping and parking violations. We haven't got the data online yet -- it's about 3GB, 11M GPS records -- but let us know if you are interested in accessing it. A condensed version...
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