Los Angeles Times Data and Graphics Department
Reporting, editing, computer programming
Southern California
Pinned Repositories
california-2016-election-precinct-maps
Precinct-level results for the 2016 general election in California
california-coronavirus-data
The Los Angeles Times' open-source archive of California coronavirus data
census-data-downloader
Download U.S. census data and reformat it for humans
django-for-data-analysis-nicar-2016
So you've gone through a Django tutorial or two, maybe even built an app, and want to know how to use it for your reporting.
latimes-calculate
Some simple math we use to do journalism.
latimes-table-stacker
Publish spreadsheets as interactive tables. And do it on deadline.
notebooks
All of our computational notebooks
python-elections
A Python wrapper for the Associated Press' U.S. election data service.
vr-interactives-three-js
A tutorial on how to build VR interactives using DEM data and Three.js
web-map-maker
Use Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap data to export an image or a vector file.
Los Angeles Times Data and Graphics Department's Repositories
datadesk/california-coronavirus-data
The Los Angeles Times' open-source archive of California coronavirus data
datadesk/census-data-downloader
Download U.S. census data and reformat it for humans
datadesk/california-coronavirus-scrapers
The open-source web scrapers that feed the Los Angeles Times California coronavirus tracker.
datadesk/census-data-aggregator
Combine U.S. census data responsibly
datadesk/census-map-downloader
Easily download U.S. census maps
datadesk/census-map-consolidator
Combine Census blocks into new shapes
datadesk/nasa-wildfires
Download wildfire hotspots detected by NASA satellites and the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)
datadesk/baker
A build tool by and for the Los Angeles Times
datadesk/baker-example-page-template
A demonstration of how to build and publish pages with the baker build tool
datadesk/census-error-analyzer
Analyze the margin of error in U.S. census data
datadesk/los-angeles-police-killings-data
The Los Angeles Times' database of people killed by local police in Los Angeles County.
datadesk/inciweb-wildfires
Download wildfire incidents data from InciWeb
datadesk/nifc-wildfires
Download wildfires data from the National Interagency Fire Center
datadesk/nws-wwa
Download watch, warning and advisory data from the National Weather Service
datadesk/noaa-wildfires
Download wildfires data from NOAA satellites
datadesk/calfire-wildfires
Download wildfires data from CalFire
datadesk/altair-election-maps-example
An experiment in creating precinct-level election results maps using Python's Altair library
datadesk/kamala-harris-schedules
An open-source archive of Vice President Kamala Harris' public calendar
datadesk/air-quality-index
Download air quality index data from AirNow
datadesk/california-drought-scrapers
datadesk/gun-dealers-2023-analysis
This analysis is an exploration into the data about gun dealers. Using information about their locations and number we compared trends by state and county and estimated how dealer density effects gun homicides.
datadesk/templates-maps
A home for LA Times frequently used map things.
datadesk/cookiecutter-python-project
Basic cookiecutter template for Python projects
datadesk/cookiecutter-r-project
Basic cookiecutter template for R projects
datadesk/delivery
Push and pull assets to and from S3 the Data Graphics way.
datadesk/delivery-deploy-action
A GitHub Action for uploading a directory to S3 using @datagraphics/delivery.
datadesk/dwr-well-susceptibility
This is a modification of a Department of Water Resources (DWR) analysis that identifies areas within groundwater basins throughout the State that may be prone to water supply shortages due to domestic drinking water wells going dry.
datadesk/generic
datadesk/monkeypox-data
datadesk/notify-slack-on-build
A GitHub Action that posts a message to Slack with the latest status of a baker page deployment