About

x.dat is a collection of stories told through data. Much of this data concerns itself with, and is often sourced from within the Greater San Diego region.

The stories span a broad swath of topics from transit, to weather, to the local economy, among others. The datasets used are open. The toolsets used to generate the visualizations are similarly open-source.

This is a sandbox of sorts to dabble in the many tools and techniques that are part of the data scientist’s repertoire. But more importantly, this is a space to work through, and make sense of an increasingly data-driven world.

Rashmi K Iyengar