Checkbook NYC is an online transparency tool that makes the City’s day-to-day spending available to the public. This event will contain an overview of the Smart Search, Advanced Search, Narrow-down faceted search and data feed search mechanisms within Checkbook NYC. The objective of this session is to help you understand what type of search technique is […]
Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that combines public policy research and data analysis with citizen action to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated, and safe. Each year, CCC produces its Child and Family Well-Being Index (CFWBI) for New York City, and […]
Interested in environmental justice, and how government and advocates use open data to advance this cause? Join NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice for a conversation, an open Q&A with expert panelists, and a preview of an upcoming environmental justice mapping tool. The panel will focus on the impact of data accessibility and […]
Kick off your morning with the Open Data Week Team! Hear about the day's events and our recommendations, get a peek behind the scenes and say hello to other festival attendees. Don’t forget your coffee!
The NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity is committed to the use of data and evidence in formulating poverty reduction policies. Its Poverty Research Team generates the alternative poverty measure for New York City, a keystone in innovative, rigorous data analysis. We cordially invite you to attend our “Making the Poverty Report Digital” session. You […]
Learn about the Department of Housing Preservation & Development's (HPD) open datasets with a dedicated deep dive into the Affordable Housing Production datasets. Staff from HPD's Division of Strategic Operations & Analytics (SOA) will show you how to leverage HPD’s datasets and engage with the HPD Open Data Team! The Department of Housing Preservation & […]
Ever wonder how the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) manages the millions of tons per year that it collects from the curb? Attend this session to learn about the network of contractors that DSNY uses to handle the refuse, recyclables, and organic materials that it collects from NYC residents, agencies, and institutions. DSNY will explain […]
Visit the annual Data Through Design Exhibition during Open Data Week! DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society. Where: Prime Produce, 424 West 54th Street New York, […]
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) runs the largest public transportation system in North America, spanning twelve counties and serving over 15 million people. The organization's network includes the nation's largest bus fleet, and the most subway and rail cars. In this session, MTA data scientists will teach attendees how to visualize MTA performance data, using […]
Checkbook NYC is an online transparency tool that makes the City’s day-to-day spending available to the public. Take a tour of the new NYC Housing Authority (NYCHA) integration into Checkbook. We will take a look at NYCHA financial spending data, contract information, and vendors. We will explain the accounting hierarchy and how to track spending […]
Join this conversation with NYC Parks data and technology leaders to learn about the agency's Open Data and how the NYC Tree Map was built. City residents can use the interactive tree map to learn about the City's urban forest. As part of this session, you'll hear how NYC Parks uses geospatial enterprise asset management […]
What is NYC archiving and how do you access that information? What gets stored in the Municipal Archives huge warehouse and in the cloud? How does the Municipal Library preserve agency reports and publications? Join us to learn the many types of historical records the agency makes available to the public! Learn how you can search […]
NYC Mayor's Office Of Management and Budget (OMB) is on a mission to educate New Yorkers about the budget! Join this conversation to learn more about OMB's role and responsibilities in City government, the budget cycle, and how budget data is reflected in Open Data.
NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM) is excited to share some best practices and the impact data has on Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a city-wide volunteer program. The NYC CERT program is celebrating 20 years and there are so many lessons learned. In this presentation learn how NYCEM leverages data to report critical operations and promote […]
School meals are an important source of nutrition for the approximately 1.1 million students who attend New York City's public schools, especially for those students who come from very low-income households. Since the 2017-2018 academic year, New York City has adopted universal free school lunch throughout the city's more than 1,000 public elementary, middle and […]
This session presents successes and challenges of academic research collaborations with government, from innovative data science to building products. A set of presenters from government and academia will discuss: How do we move from academic research to having tangible impact and building sustainable things with the government? How does Open Data facilitate collaborations between academia […]
** Please register for this hybrid event at: https://forms.gle/f92Vd7tzkjxDux9a9 ** Data can be a crucial tool for understanding and managing our schools, and its analysis and interpretation have powerful consequences. The mission of Adelphi University's NYC Schools Open Data Portal is to make open public school data in New York available to everyone interested in […]
Want to learn more about Open Data? Looking for tips for using public datasets? Join this introductory session for an overview of the history of data sharing in NYC; a tutorial on navigating, filtering, and visualizing datasets; and an exploration of some tools that make Open Data easier to use. The session will be taught […]
Kick off your morning with the Open Data Week Team! Hear about the day's events and our recommendations, get a peek behind the scenes and say hello to other festival attendees. Don’t forget your coffee!
Have you ever wondered how NYC Open Data compares to other places around the world? In this event, you can learn about data.europa.eu's annual assessment of European open data, hear how NYC is making its public data more available and accessible, and join a discussion about Open Data best practices and how to better measure […]
Over the span of various projects, John Jay College's Research and Evaluation Center (REC) has developed a rigorous data inspection and cleaning process to create research-ready data sets for community-level analysis. These projects have involved understanding the effects of interventions focused on specific communities in New York City. Join this session to learn how this […]
Presto is an open-source SQL engine for querying and analyzing large data sets from multiple sources. In this session, you'll use NYC Open Data to learn some basics of how to connect to any data source, query, and distribute data. Presto avoids the complexity and cost of ingesting and duplicating data to enable data-driven decision […]
Using several open data sources, DataKind and the Black Wealth Data Center have started building a tool to facilitate the targeting of business capital investment into Black-owned businesses in underinvested localities. The racial wealth gap and the gap in assets accrued by households between races is representative of, and interrelated with, many inequalities experienced between […]
Visit the annual Data Through Design Exhibition during Open Data Week! DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society. Where: Prime Produce, 424 West 54th Street New York, […]
There are evident inequities in how public space is distributed, restricted, used, and made unusable, and how this results in clear disparities in public health, mobility, and environmental justice for New Yorkers, across all New York neighborhoods. Spatial Equity NYC, a new tool developed by Transportation Alternatives and MIT, reveals these inequities through the visualization […]
Interested in how local and municipal data can be used to inform community-level change, advocacy, and equity for young children and families? Are you a passionate advocate or curious about how data can be used to improve a critical early childhood program for our youngest children? Join Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) […]
Want to learn more about Open Data? Looking for tips for using public datasets? Join this introductory session for an overview of the history of data sharing in NYC; a tutorial on navigating, filtering, and visualizing datasets; and an exploration of some tools that make Open Data easier to use. The session will be taught […]
Close out Open Data Week with us at NYC School of Data! BetaNYC’s annual civic tech community conference invites New Yorkers to engage with the City’s technology, data and design communities during Open Data Week. When: Saturday, March 18th Where: CUNY School of Law Tickets: Registration is required to attend! View the Program: nycsodata23.sched.com This […]
Visit the annual Data Through Design Exhibition during Open Data Week! DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society. Where: Prime Produce, 424 West 54th Street New York, […]
Visit the annual Data Through Design Exhibition during Open Data Week! DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society. Where: Prime Produce, 424 West 54th Street New York, […]