This post is based on an exercise for Comm 117, Digital Journalism.
The map above displays the locations of businesses in San Jose that hold off-sale retail licenses to sell alcohol. Click on a red dot to see details about that business. The source of the data is the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
PALO ALTO, Calif. — The Stanford School of Engineering’s new annual report caught my eye on Friday (I follow the school on Twitter because I study and work at Stanford). What I learned was that the school has made public data on the races and genders of its students for years now.
Here’s a glance at some of the numbers. I collected each type of data from the first and last years it was available. An archive of these annual reports, including interim years, is here. For some context on race and gender in the Stanford student population overall, here is what the university offers on graduate students and its newest undergraduate class.