Arts Culture and Media: Everyday Data
Resources for finding data and developing information evaluation skills for the Everyday Data course.
Newark Data Portal
- City of Newark Open Data
- Open portal for depositing data relating to Newark. Everything from abandoned properties, absenteeism and graduation rates, Newark building footprints, and census tract job data to GPS snow plow locations, 4311 (non-emergency service) calls by neighborhood, turnstile data, and ward maps.
The City
- Data USA: Newark, NJ
- A visual and interactive online source for a wide range of data on the City of Newark.
- The New Jersey Municipal Data Book.
- Montclair, N.J., New Jersey Associates, 1981- Annual
- One page summaries [sample] of the population, government, finances, schools, and other characterisitics of each of New Jersey's towns and cities. Available?
- Newark in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000.
- Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, 2003.A Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative databook. Looks at Newark in the context of the 23 cities in the Living Cities group, as well as within the largest 100 cities in the nation.
- 2002 Census of Governments: Volume 4, no. 4: Finances of Municipal and Township Governments
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Table 18: Finances of Individual Municipal Governments with a Population of 25,000 or More by State: 2001-2002
- New Jersey Property Tax Information
- By County and Municipality. 1998--.
Librarian
Angela Lawrence
Contact:
Dana Library, 4th Floor
185 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
185 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 353-3797
Subjects: Music