USC Libraries Data and Visualization Workshop: Finding Los Angeles Neighborhood Data
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Add to Calendar 2019-08-27 11:00:00 2019-08-27 12:00:00 USC Libraries Data and Visualization Workshop: Finding Los Angeles Neighborhood Data 11:00 am 12:00 pm America/Los_Angeles public
VKC Library offers a variety of workshops, events, and other outreach programming focusing on data, visualization, tools, software, government information and collections housed within VKC Library and other libraries. The workshops are intended for both undergraduate and graduate students and faculty.
NEW SERVICE - Open Hours on Fridays 1 - 3pm, VKC Library, MMR
Join us on Friday’s starting September 27th for weekly open hours.
Get help with data, visualization, and use our space for research! These open hours are a compliment to our workshop series and are a great opportunity to continue the discussion from those sessions. Sign up for reminder email and more info about these open hours.
Space is limited and you must RSVP.
***Please note you must bring your own laptop to these workshops.*** All workshops will be held in VKC MMR.
Find neighborhood statistics and data via USC Libraries databases (Social Explorer and SimplyAnalytics) and publicly available tools like the Census American Factfinder [which is transitioning to Data.Census.Gov] and open data portals like City LA.
Theme(s): Finding Data, Visualizing Data
Learning Objective: Participants will understand how to navigate databases and open source data portals to find neighborhood statistics, data and maps.
Keywords: statistics, data, mapping
For more information, please visit: https://libraries.usc.edu/locations/vkc-library/workshops