Databook Update: Data Supporting Civil Service and Tech Procurement Reform

WeGovNYC’s Databook (databook.nyc) is a data pipeline that indexes, normalizes, and republishes over 60 NYC Open Data datasets as a publicly accessible API and into an interface that offers in-depth profiles of City agencies, public schools, civil service titles, contracts and much more.

Our recent focus is providing tools for people interested in reforming civil service titles and technology procurement. We FOILed for civil service title descriptions, extracted their data, integrated it into Databook along with data visualizations at databook.nyc/titles. We also extracted all data from PassportPublic and Checkbook.NYC to create a new section in Databook connecting vendors, solicitations, agencies, vendors and contracts at https://databook.nyc/procurement.

We will discuss all our tools as well as how we’ve adopted generative AI (vibe coding) to accelerate our development.