Los Angeles Data Justice Hub

Los Angeles

• DataLA (City): General data maintained by and related to the city of Los Angeles.
• DataLA (County):  General data maintained by and related to the county of Los Angeles.
• LA Geo Hub : Data on location-based open data maintained by the city of Los Angeles.
• LA County Daily COVID-19 Data: LA County’s daily Covid-19 rate tracker and maps.
• LA County WIC Data: LA County information on WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children). 
• Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies: Research Institute at UCLA that publishes the LA Quality of Life Index.
• Los Angeles Sustainable Development Goals: Tracks Los Angeles’ efforts and outcomes related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by Mayor Garcetti. Open-source data sets related to sustainable cities, reducing inequalities, gender equality, unhoused rights, etc. 
• USC Neighborhood Data for Social Change: Maps and data set of various indicators in LA neighborhoods  

California

• California Open Data: State of California Open-Data portal with wide-range of datasets, including datasets on Covid-19 vaccine progress, environmental indicators such as bacteria in waste-water, and homeless reports.

National

• Community Action Partnerships Data Hub: maps and indicators related to community needs across the US, including demographic, educational, housing, and poverty indicators. 
• Data.gov: Site maintained by the U.S. General Services Administration that collects datasets on everything from the demographic numbers related to Alzheimer’s to the number of Black Owned Businesses in Los Angeles. Easy search function, and can further find specific information by using filters. 
• U.S. Census.Gov: Every ten years, the federal government oversees a national census that counts how many people are in each census tract and collects additional socioeconomic and demographic data. They also have courses on how to navigate the site.

• U.S. Bureau of Justice  Statistics: The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics includes summary data tables of crime statistics in the US, as well as a variety of analytical tools. The full datasets can be found at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. 
• KPCC Officer Involved Shooting: A KPCC investigation into officer involved shootings in the Los Angeles area.
• Fatal Encounters: Fatal Encounters is a partial database of fatal police encounters, leading to the creation of the National Officer-Involved Homicide Database with a team at USC.
• Million Dollar Hoods: A project at Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA that provides a wide-array of data related to incarceration and criminal justice.
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Federal site providing access to various indicators and data analysis tools related to juvenile criminal justice.
• State Sentencing Data: The Sentencing Project is a criminal justice reform organization that advocates for effective and humane responses to crime prevention. Full datasets on crime states are available for each state.
• Vera Institute of Justice: The Vera Institute of Justice has a searchable database for research related to criminal justice reform that can be searched by topic, typ, or region.
• Washington Post Fatal Force: The Washington Post Fatal Force Project is an attempt to log every fatal shooting by an on-duty police officers since 2015. A full database is available.

• The Opportunity Atlas: The Opportunity Atlas examines which neighborhoods in America lead to the greatest intergenerational social mobility and relevant factors. While a full dataset is not available, a user guide to utilizing the tools is provided. 
• UCLA Labor Center: Provides guidance on best practices around survey design, particularly for issues of labor rights, as well as an extensive database of reports from the center.

• CA School Dashboard: The California School Dashboard is a state-wide database that provides broad data related to education by school district or county.
• California State Report Card: Provides enrollment, demographic, educational attainment, etc.l data for public and charter schools, districts, and the State.
• Childstats.gov: Data sets concentrated on indicators related to children and families. 
• KidsCount Data Center: Hundred of measures of well-being for kids across the nation, which can be focused down to Los Angeles. 
• Los Angeles Unified School District: General data on LAUSD and individual school sites. 
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): A program of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, this site provides annual and national statistics for all public elementary and secondary schools, and school districts across the U.S.

• CalEnviroScreen: The California Environmental Office of Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) contains a multitude of data sets and tools related to environmental health, including pollutants burdens and health indicators for communities. There are a series of How To videos that help to navigate the site. 
• EcoAtlas: EcoAtlas aggregates datasets from many different sources, with many datasets being specific to California. Datasets related to water quality, vegetation, conservation, etc. can be found on the site. 
• EJScreen: EPA’s environmental justice screening and mapping tool. Includes numerous environmental indicators and guide on how to use the site.

• Food Insecurity in LA: LA Controller site on food insecurity in Los Angeles. 
• USDA Food Access Maps: A site that maps food access in the US. 
• CA Food Banks Hunger Data: Food insecurity rates by county. 
• US Census- Food Security Measures: Measures of food security by census tract. 
• Feeding America Data Commons: Collated data sets of various measures related to food insecurity, including temperature rises, health, income, etc. 

• Data 2X: A collection of informative data related to gender and 
• OECD Gender Equality: Includes indicators related to gender inequality, including education, employment and health. Only includes OECD member countries, as well as a few non-Western countries.
• SDG- Gender Equity: Datasets and reports on markers of gender equity in Los Angeles. 
• UN Women Global Database on Violence against Women: A collated tracker with metrics on gender-based violence from across the world. 
• Woman Stats: Dataset that compiles information on the status of women across the world.

• Unhoused Street Count: Data from yearly street count of unhoused people in Los Angeles. 
• Sustainable Development Goals Los Angeles: Unhoused equity markers. 
• UCLA Luskin Institute for Inequality and Democracy Unequal Cities: A research coordination network designed to address the housing crisis in Los Angeles and other cities.

• California Immigrant Data Portal: A resource and progress tracker for immigrants and those serving immigrant communities across the state of California. 
• State of Black Immigrants: Research Institute produces research reports and facts sheets on the state of Black immigrants and advocacy tools for Black organizations and allies. 
• State of Immigration in Los Angeles: Report on the state of immigration in Los Angeles, as well as some data visualizations.

• American National Election Studies: The American National Election Studies is a long-running research project that aims to capture voting trends across time in the US. 
• Democracy Map: Tracks state election laws and policies that aim to disenfranchise marginalized groups, as well as recommendations on how to optimize civic engagement and protect electoral integrity. 
• Los Angeles Ethics Committee: Open data portal maintained by the city of Los Angeles that allows constituents to view data related to election ethics and campaign contributions. 
• Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA: LPPI at UCLA has a series of resources and research on voting rights. Data would need to be extracted from reports. 
• Pew Research Center: A nonpartisan fact tank that conducts polling and informs the public about issues and trends shaping the United States and the world. 

• CA Health and Community Services Open Data: Non confidential health and human services data that can be easily retrieved, combined, downloaded, sorted, searched, and analyzed.
• CA Department of Public Health Data and Statistics: Access to public health data and information, such as queries, resources, statistics, surveys, informatics, GIS, and health indicators
• Covid Racial Data Tracker : COVID Racial Data Tracker aimed at gathering race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 in the United States. The last data collection was completed on March 7, 2021.
• COVID-19 Health Inequities in Cities: Compares and tracks inequities across individual subgroups, neighborhoods, and cities in the US.
• Kaiser Family Foundation Racial Equity and Health Data Dashboard: Provides data on the intersection between public health and racial equity. 
• UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: DATA program exists to make it easy and understandable to a wide range of audiences and health advocates.

• AAPI Data: Aggregated resources that aim is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on datasets on Asian Americans and NHPIs that are publicly available.
• Asian American Statistics: California State Library list of various sites that have data on Asian American populations. 
• Black Youth Project: A research institute at University of Chicago that examines the attitudes, resources, and cultures of the young, urban black millennial.
• Hate Crime Statistics: Site maintained by the FBI that collates data from local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies related to recognize and document hate crimes. 
• Minority Population Profiles: Data maintained by the US government outlining pertinent outcomes related to demographic, health, education, and other measures. 
• National Equity Atlas: National organization that publishes the National Equity Index, among others data pertinent to racial equity in the United States.
• NCAI Policy Research Center: National Congress of American Indians collects and publishes their own data on past and present issues facing Native communities in the United states. 
• Race Counts: A database that provides racial equity indicators of the Los Angeles area.
• Resource Center for Minority Data: The Resource Center for Minority Data collects and publishes a variety of information that pertains to minority groups, including housing, education, discrimination, etc. Data can be filtered by location.
• UCLA American Indian Studies Center Hate Crime Map: A crowd-sourced platform that enables victims to report instances of hate crimes maintained by the UCLA American Studies Center.

• KPCC Officer Involved Shooting: A KPCC investigation into officer involved shootings in the Los Angeles area. 
• Fatal Encounters: Fatal Encounters is a partial database of fatal police encounters, leading to the creation of the National Officer-Involved Homicide Database with a team at USC.
• Washington Post Fatal Force: The Washington Post Fatal Force Project is an attempt to log every fatal shooting by on-duty police officers since 2015. A full database is available.

U.S. Census Data: Tips and videos on how to utilize U.S. Census data, including exporting excel tables, cleaning data, and creating a map with census tracts.

Many of the U.S. governmental offices maintain some online tutorials, including U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. There are many more resources that can be found depending on your interest. 

• Excel is a readily available spreadsheet software that can be really helpful in conducting statistical analysis. There are many helpful tutorials on Youtube, including this one and this one. Excel can even be used for GIS analysis. 
• Geographic Information System is a way to visualize and store geographic data. A list of open-access software can be found here and specific tutorials can be found here. QGIS is an open-access software that comes particularly recommended, but both ArcGIS and Python are widely used for GIS analysis. 
• R is an open-access language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Because you program it to do what you want, it is incredibly versatile but does have a steeper learning curve. Some recommended learning resources include A Modern Dive into R by Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim or  R for Data Science by Hadley Whickham and Garrett Grolemund. There is also a very helpful video series by Richard Landers and a course by Codeacademy. 
• Tableau is a data visualization platform that has a free version. There are many free online videos that can help you learn how to use it.