This week, as I was browsing through some datasets at the UCI Machine Learning Repository - a well-known source of open datasets for machine learning enthusiasts - I came across one that caught

Since the beginning of 2017 I’ve been working, pro-bono, for a San Diego based non-profit whose primary focus is to cater to the civic data needs of the region. This includes supporting local

It’s the Demographics, Stupid! - this is an oft repeated phrase, used to explain any number of things from the gentrification of inner cities, the opioid crises, the state of public infrastructure to,

A couple of weeks ago I volunteered as a counter on the annual point-in-time (PIT) count of the homeless organized by the Regional Task Force for the Homeless. I was fortunate enough to

It’s the end of January and that usually means two things for most people: (a) they’ve more or less abandoned their new year resolutions and (b) they are in the middle of a

Weather talk and San Diego don’t often go in the same sentence, thanks to the region’s reputation for its near constant sunny disposition. Yet, it has its share of severe weather events from

From time to time there will be posts that gather together sites from which the datasets that power the stories here are sourced. This is one such post. It has a list of

This is the very first post on here and what better way to begin than to take a peek at the tools we’ll be using to generate much of the content on x.dat.