Open Data about Mobility

In this whirlwind session, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) will take you through a tour of the datasets made available through their agencies’ respective open data programs, and highlight opportunities for analysis that combine datasets from their separate open data portals.

Highlighted datasets include, but are not limited to, pedestrian volumes, bus speeds, and vehicle counts (citywide, from the DOT, and entries to the congestion relief zone, from the MTA). We’ll cover how the data is collected, why the data matters, and interesting things you can find in the datasets.

Come ready to take notes on interesting datasets you may want to use later in a project. You’ll leave the session inspired and ready to take on a new analytics project using open data about mobility! After this event, join DOT, the MTA, and Young Professionals in Transportation for a happy hour.