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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: Juan Vasquez
Meet Juan Vasquez, a data programs manager at the City of Los Angeles’ Office of Finance. He leads in modernizing and optimizing how the 400-person department collects, reports,...- Community Profiles
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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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A New Standard to Help Maintain LA Streets
We invite you to imagine a future where LA's streets are maintained not because someone yells into a phone or when someone needs to reports a pothole via an app but rather that...- Data Articles
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Silver Lake Parking Tickets
The City of Los Angeles recently released a dataset that contains parking citations from 2012-2015. When it comes to parking, we all constantly wonder how far we can toe the...- 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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Community Profile: Ben Coppersmith
Meet Ben Coppersmith. He works as a Product Manager on a Data Services team within the Walt Disney Studios. How’d you get into data? In college math classes, we would spend ten...- Community Profiles
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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: Kegan Maher
Meet Kegan Maher. Kegan is the Data Officer for the City of Santa Monica. He moved to Santa Monica 15 years ago from Seattle and has been involved in City government basically...- Community Profiles
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Community Profile: Hunter Owens
Meet Hunter Owens. Hunter is the Senior Data Scientist for the City of Los Angeles where he oversees the entire data team. How’d you get into data? It all started with fantasy...- Community Profiles
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Community Profile: Jon Schleuss
Meet Jon Schleuss, a graphics and data journalist for the Los Angeles Times. He has been at the Los Angeles Times for 5 years creating interactive graphics and data...- 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
