Urban Futures Data Core

Description

Cities are the focal point of economic, social, and environmental challenges and opportunities. To establish USC as a thought leader and partner of choice to tackle the challenges of the urban future, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the USC Marshall School of Business propose establishing an Urban Futures Data Core to serve as a university-wide hub for data analysis and dissemination. Students working on this project will work with all faculty at Price and Marshall to catalogue the publicly available, restricted-use, and self-collected datasets that USC researchers have previously used. They will then create a secure website to track each data source and its data use agreements, dates of availability, and geographic level of granularity. After a data website is constructed, students will have the opportunity to assist with creating geographic visualizations of key indices related to urban futures.

Students

• Andrew Bae

• Austin Zhang

• Brian Tinsley

• Chaitanya Priya Kakkehalli Jayaram

• Ginny Barnes

• Harman Pelia

• Pin-Tzu Lee

• Rachita Jain

• Sneh Shah

• TEJAS SHETH

• Yi Zheng

Advisors

• Alice Chen

What students will learn

The students will learn about all data sources used in public policy and business, data management, and web design.