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The Access the Data project was created to address the growing gaps between new technology development and decisions impacting our communities with the underlying systems and data that drive those initiatives
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Topic list for Workshops #19

Closed snooravi closed 3 years ago

snooravi commented 3 years ago

Overview

Look through Julien's shared resources and pull out most frequently requested topics (datasets) Develop list of topics to bring to Julien for his input on what we should start developing.

Action Items

Look at Data Liaisons workshops for inspiration and develop 10 topics for first round of workshops

Resources/Instructions

https://empowerla.org/data/ drive

Proposal for Workshop Improvements Community Data 101 Workshop Proposal [Working Draft]

snooravi commented 3 years ago
  1. Intro to Community Data (applications of open source datasets)
  2. Deep dive into 311 (data collection, to data tables, to visualization)
snooravi commented 3 years ago

@MalakH21 @dplem if you can add to this list before Friday. Thank you

dplem commented 3 years ago
  1. What Data Visualizations / Dashboards are currently available?
  2. What is Data Analysis?
  3. How to search LA Open Data Portal
  4. What is the Geohub?
  5. How to make your own visualizations with Tableau/ Google Colab
  6. How to gather raw data
snooravi commented 3 years ago

Proposed Skeleton:

Data collection

MalakH21 commented 3 years ago

Update - Using Voyant to get a preliminary idea of topic areas of interests from the feedback forms provided by Julien

Next steps - update/change analysis to include bigrams and update topic list if needed based on findings

ExperimentsInHonesty commented 3 years ago

@MalakH21 @snooravi I met with Julien on Friday and moved the conversation forward a little bit, and put notes in the following file, which it seemed like the place that the suggested courses are listed: Community Data 101 Workshop Content [Working Draft]

ExperimentsInHonesty commented 3 years ago

@MalakH21 @snooravi it looks like on May 12 it said the next steps were:

Next steps - update/change analysis to include bigrams and update topic list if needed based on findings

Did that get done?

Besides firming up Julien's understanding of what the workshops will be about and which order... it would be good to get a list of the steps remaining.

snooravi commented 3 years ago

Open Data Portal for Tabular data Progress has been made! Last year this time there was about 300 datasets and now there are 2K+ datasets. Examples: List of active businesses, Building & safety permits, Arrest data from 2010 - present, Open bid opportunities.

Zimas for Tabular and Graphical Data