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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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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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The Unique Civic Data Opportunity in Southern California
Projects begun in the enthusiasm of boom years have collapsed with the particular boom or have been abandoned like a wagon wheel in the desert. Reform movements inaugurated...- 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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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: 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 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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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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Silver Lake Parking Tickets II: Neighborhoods
After months of skating by, undetected, unpermitted, it finally happened: we got a parking ticket. Our neighborhood, just south of the Silver Lake Reservoir, restricts overnight...- Data Articles
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Struggling to Stay Afloat
Unlike the official poverty measure which does not accurately account for local costs of living, the Real Cost Measure factors the costs of housing, food, health care, child...- Data Articles
