Quandary.

Be honest. When you read the words data automation you get a sudden rush of melatonin to your brain, your eyelids get heavy, and you get an uncontrollable urge to fall asleep. Don’t be ashamed; you are reacting to these words in a similar manner...

Hey San Diego! Your open data portal just got a LOT faster! One of the reasons we wanted to run our own data portal is the flexibility we have to change it and add functionality. Today, we’re putting the pedal to the metal on those...

StreetsSD was an interesting project us from an organizational and technical perspective. Let’s peek behind the scenes to see how this all came together.

We own several Tableau licenses at the City of San Diego. We use it for a few things, the most visible of which is PerformSD, which our Open Data Coordinator Andrell absolutely rocked. I’ve been playing around a bit with Tableau and wanted to see...

If you work with data, or interact with people who do, you have inevitably heard the word “dataset”. It’s one of those jargon-y words that gets thrown around, and people are somehow supposed to know what it means. It’s like when you go to the...

Fairly recently, I celebrated my 1 year anniversary of being with the city of San Diego as the Chief Data Officer. Naturally, I’ve been reflecting on my first year in government, and one of the things that strikes me the most is the amount of...