Texas Dance Hall Database

For a good part of this year, I’ve been working with my colleague Josh Conrad (Clio GIS) on the Texas Dance Hall Database that currently lives at the University of San Antonio’s Center for Cultural Sustainability. Josh, who is a GIS wizard and one of the smartest people I know, assembled lists of dance halls from many different sources to create a map of these historic resources which we plan to make public once we’ve cleaned up the data. Right now, I have a pretty big Excel spreadsheet that I’m getting ready to work in, once Josh and I have the chance to discuss and agree upon some conventions for how the data will be presented (consistently) so that it can be easily queried down the road. Getting to dig into this data will be pretty exciting, once we’ve done some “data hygiene”.