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Welcome to the LA Counts Library! Harvested from federal, state, regional, and local data publishers, these open datasets and related data stories tell the public tale of Los Angeles County. They reveal what we know and even what we don't know. Use them to examine your government, explain how things work, and explore the potential for social change in and across Los Angeles County.
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Data Adventure #7: How to Analyze Geographic Data in Shapefiles
From empty Dorito bags and fast food cups lining the curb to plastic bags stuck in trees, litter mars too many L.A. neighborhoods. In response, in 2016 Mayor Eric Garcetti...- Data Articles
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Data Adventure #4: How to Analyze Time-Based Data
This guide is for novice users interested in analyzing data that varies based on the city. Organizations, LA County, and cities collect a variety of time-based data. Time-based...- Data Articles
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Data Adventure #5: How to Analyze a Budget
This guide is for anyone interested in analyzing budget data. Where does the money go? Residents often wonder how much the city spends on what types of goods and services....- Data Articles
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Data Adventure #3: Comparing Data About Two or More Cities
This guide is for novice users interested in analyzing data that varies based on the city. Organizations, LA County, and city governments collect all sorts of city data, from...- Data Articles
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Data Adventure #2: Tools for Data Analysis
Welcome to an introduction to the tools we'll use in LA Counts data instructables! This introduction is for anyone interested in analyzing data and creating data visualizations....- Data Articles
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Data Adventure #1: How to Find a Data Set
The first step in any data analysis is to find data you are interested in analyzing. Historically, it has been difficult to find data sets. Governments have tended to release...- Data Articles
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Community Profile: Caroline Bhalla
Meet Caroline Bhalla. Caroline runs the Neighborhood Data for Social Change Initiative through the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation. This platform enables users to...- Community Profiles
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Community profiles, data visualizations, and you
More than likely you’ve already seen the new LA Counts redesign. If not, please take a tour around the site after finishing this blog post. A very brief history to set up this...- Blog Post
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So, what is this LA Counts thing?
LA Counts is both a website and a growing group of data practitioners, hackers, civic activists, journalists, researchers, students and government workers using open data to...- Blog Post
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Listen first, hack second
Every year, Code for America volunteer brigades around the country celebrate a day devoted to civic hacking. Teams nationwide come up with ways to give back to their communities...- Data Articles
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Open Data Viz: LAPD Crime Incidents by Division (2010-2017)
I am one of those people. Growing up on the East Coast, I dreamt of bumping into my favorite celebrities and scratching my performance itch through stand-up comedy. That said, I...- Data Articles
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Finding the Story in the Data
Data science is often a world of fast-paced “boot camps” and speculation. A dizzying array of platforms and companies promise improved efficiency and new insights. In the rush,...- Data Articles
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Defending Sanctuary Cities
The United States has always been defined by its immigrants. German arrivals dominated in the early 20th century. They populated large swaths of the midwest, while Italians and...- Data Articles
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By the Community, for the Community
Think about data. Maybe you’re imagining a spreadsheet of numbers, or a stream of 1’s and 0’s. Now think about where that data lives. Is it on your computer or a company’s...- Data Articles
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A Portrait of LA County: Access to Knowledge
Education is a means to a host of desirable ends. The ones we hear about most are education’s economic benefits—better jobs, bigger paychecks, and lower rates of unemployment,...- Data Articles
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Community Profile: Andrew Schrock
Meet Andrew Schrock. He’s a communication researcher by day as well as an author and instructor at USC and UCLA. How’d you get into data? I have a degree in Computer Science....- Community Profiles
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Community Profile: Leila Forouzan
Meet Leila Forouzan. Leila works at the Advancement Project California, a next generation, multiracial civil rights organization working on systems change. The staff in the...- Community Profiles
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An Equity Profile of the Los Angeles Region
While the nation is projected to become a people-of-color majority by the year 2044, Los Angeles reached that milestone in the 1980s. Los Angeles’ diversity is a major asset in...- Data Articles
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Real Cost Measure Methodology
The Real Cost Measure is a poverty measure designed by United Ways of California. Unlike the official poverty measure which does not accurately account for local costs of...- Methodologies
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The Evolution of LA Counts
You can see the idea of the project in a single number: 800,000. According to the 2010 census, that’s how many Long-term Permanent Residents in Los Angeles County were eligible...- Data Articles
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Linking Open Data to Insights and Storytelling
Sixty five percent of people in the United States seek out government resources when looking for data; unfortunately, only ten percent actually find what they’re looking for....- Data Articles
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Measure of America: Humanizing Development in America
Los Angeles County is blessed with a diverse population, a dynamic economy, a beautiful coastline, and a dedicated community of organizations and individuals invested in making...- Data Articles
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Counting Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County is the most populous county in the country, home to over 10 million residents. It is a large, sprawling region with 88 cities, many unincorporated...- Data Articles
