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 !...
View ArticleTableau 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.
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleLittle Data is a Big Idea
Even little data, such as a list of crime incidents, locations of bus stops, or population growth estimates, is a big idea, at least according to San Diego magazine’s 25 BIG Ideas.
View ArticleData Contest in 10 Days!
The SDSU / Data Library Data Contest has teamed up with UCSD, Python User Group and several Data Science User’s groups to now offer a full day event with two morning tutorials (R and Python) a mid-day...
View ArticlePrepare Your Data Contest Toolkit
To get ready for the Data Contest, you’ll want to ensure that your laptop already has installed on it all of the tools you’ll need. There is a set of tools that we use in most of our programs, and it...
View ArticleData Contest Links
The SDSU Data Contest Kickoff is tomorrow! Better register if you haven’t already. Here are all of the last minute details. Time and Location: Petersen Gym, SDSU, Room 153, 1:00 PM Parking: Parking...
View Article2015 Data Contest Winners
We completed our 2015 Data Contest with final presentations and winners at the awards ceremony on Tuesday. Here are the winners and their presentations: UCSD MAS Data Science, Time and Space Analysis...
View ArticleMaienschein Mandates Machine Readability
Finally, our legislators are getting below the surface of the Open Data issue and addressing one of the deeper plains: Open Data is nearly useless when it is delivered in PDF. To address this problem,...
View ArticleSDSU Big Data Hackathon
Big Data Hackathon on Oct 3 at 9AM at SDSU! On October 3, the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age will host a Big Data Hackathon at San Diego State University. Contestants will use data...
View ArticleWhen Data Goes Bad
Data analysts should always be skeptical of their data, because it very often goes bad. The Quartz bad data guide is a summary of the most common data flaws, from automatic Excel conversions to...
View ArticlePro Bono Data Analysis This Summer
Disadvantaged Student Performance 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,...
View ArticleHealthy Food Access Data Library Project
Project Management Site 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...
View ArticleExplore 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...
View ArticleSan 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,...
View ArticleSummer 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...
View ArticleSummer 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,...
View ArticleSummer Water Quality Data Project
For its data program for Summer 2018, The San Diego Regional Data Library proposes to build a data repository for water quality data, to make it easier to find water quality data, link it together and...
View ArticleJupyterLab For Library Data Projects
One of the difficult parts of working on a Data Library project is setting up all of the tools, including Python, Jupyter, Metatab, Pandas and several others. To make it easier to get started, I’ve...
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