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SUMMARY:Morning Coffee with the Open Data Week Team ☕ 3.27
DESCRIPTION:Kick off your morning with the Open Data Week Team! \nJoin us online daily at 9:00am to talk about upcoming events\, hear our recommendations\, get a peek behind the scenes\, and say hello to other festival attendees. \nBring your own coffee! \nThe Open Data Week Team is represented by staff from the Open Data Team at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation and BetaNYC.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/morning-coffee-with-the-open-data-week-team-%e2%98%95-3-27-2/
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CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:NYC Residential Property Sale Insight: Model Improvement and AI Integration
DESCRIPTION:This session explores advanced analysis of NYC residential property sales (2019–2024) using NYC Open Data\, with a focus on model improvement and AI integration. Researchers Yue Ru Li and Chunhong Zhao will demonstrate how combining Department of Finance sales data with Department of Buildings permit data can enhance predictive performance. Participants will work through a hands-on Python notebook covering feature engineering\, data visualization\, and machine learning models\, while also learning how an embedded AI assistant can streamline data cleaning\, feature generation\, and model interpretation.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-residential-property-sale-insight-model-improvement-and-ai-integration/
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CATEGORIES:Demonstration
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SUMMARY:Teaching with NYC Open Data: Publishing Student Civic Research Through Reproducible Workflows
DESCRIPTION:This session showcases the Brooklyn College Open Data Student Gallery\, a publicly available resource featuring original civic research projects conducted by graduate students at Brooklyn College. Developed as part of a reproducible research curriculum\, students used real NYC Open Data datasets to investigate questions that mattered to them — from public safety and housing trends to environmental and social issues affecting New Yorkers. Using R\, Quarto\, and the open-source nycOpenData package\, each student produced a fully reproducible research chapter that is now published as part of an open educational resource. The gallery can be explored here:\nhttps://martinezc1-nyc-open-data-student-gallery.share.connect.posit.cloud/. \nThe session will begin with a brief overview of how NYC Open Data was integrated into the classroom and how students moved from research question to public-facing publication. The majority of the session will feature short lightning talks from participating students\, each presenting their project\, dataset\, analysis approach\, and key findings. Attendees will gain insight into how real civic datasets can be used in higher education to build technical skills\, critical thinking\, and meaningful public scholarship. \nThis session is ideal for educators\, civic technologists\, students\, and anyone interested in public data\, reproducible research\, or innovative teaching approaches. Participants will leave with concrete ideas for incorporating NYC Open Data into their own classrooms or projects — and examples of how student work can move beyond traditional assignments to become lasting\, shareable contributions to the civic data ecosystem.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/teaching-with-nyc-open-data-publishing-student-civic-research-through-reproducible-workflows/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/teaching-with-nyc-open-data-publishing-student-civic-research-through-reproducible-workflows/
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SUMMARY:Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introductory Class - March 27
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data. \nThis training is FREE and OPEN to the public. \nWhat will I learn?\n* What is NYC Open Data\n* History of the NYC Open Data program\n* How to frame questions for working with NYC Open Data\n* Using the NYC Open Data website\, filtering\, and visualizing datasets\n* Useful tools powered by NYC Open Data \nThe Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC. \nRSVP here or visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/discovering-nyc-open-data-an-introductory-class-march-27/
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SUMMARY:Street Trees and Housing Markets: An Open-Data Analysis of NYC's Urban Greening
DESCRIPTION:Street tree planting delivers well-documented environmental and public health benefits\, but it also interacts with housing markets in complex ways. This virtual session uses open data to explore how urban greening strategies may shape housing prices and rents in New York City. \nDrawing on NYC Open Data and other publicly available housing\, demographic\, and environmental datasets\, the presentation will walk through the data sources\, modeling approach\, and key findings of this analysis. The session also features a live demonstration of a web-based interactive simulation tool that allows participants to explore different tree-planting scenarios and their potential market impacts\, supporting more informed\, transparent\, and equitable decision-making around urban greening investments. This session is designed for planners\, policymakers\, researchers\, advocates\, and community members. No technical background is required. \nThe project is led by Dr. Hanxue Wei\, Industry Assistant Professor at NYU’s Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP). Archy Guo\, Graduate Research Assistant at CUSP\, is leading the presentation and conducting the core analytical work. The project team also includes Dr. Max Vilgalys\, Climate Policy Analyst at NYC Office of Management and Budget\, and Dr. Alex Azan\, Assistant Professor at NYU Langone Health.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/street-trees-and-housing-markets-an-open-data-analysis-of-nycs-urban-greening/
LOCATION:NYU Tandon School of Engineering\, 370 Jay Street\, Room 233\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hands-On Exploration of Child and Adolescent Mental Health with the Healthy Brain Network
DESCRIPTION:The Healthy Brain Network (HBN) is a large community initiative and open data project run by the Child Mind Institute (CMI). Its goal is to better understand mental health and learning in children and adolescents in New York City. Families can take part in the clinical and research study if they have concerns about their child’s mental health or learning to receive a free\, comprehensive clinical evaluation. Over the past decade\, the Healthy Brain Network has collected and openly shared anonymized data from more than 4\,000 children and adolescents. This information includes behavioral\, clinical\, and brain-based data\, and is made freely available to researchers\, educators\, and the public to support new discoveries in mental health and psychiatric research. \nIn this hands-on session\, the CMI data team will introduce the openly accessible Healthy Brain Network (HBN) datasets with a focus on wristwatch actigraphy data\, which consists of continuous measurements collected from a wearable device worn on the wrist\, similar to a fitness tracker. These data provide insights into daily activity patterns and sleep over time.\nAttendees will learn how to download\, explore\, visualize\, and analyze actigraphy signals using wristpy\, an open-source Python package developed by CMI. Through guided activities\, attendees will discover how these data can be used to uncover patterns over time and generate insights into behavior and mental health. This virtual class/training aims to spark curiosity and empower individuals to explore and engage with HBN data.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/hands-on-exploration-of-child-and-adolescent-mental-health-with-the-healthy-brain-network/
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SUMMARY:Building Applications with NYC Open Data and Open Source Tools
DESCRIPTION:Christian Casazza is a data engineer who has built a open-source data platform on top of NYC Open Data. In this talk\, he discusses using open source data engineering tools like Dagster\, Polars\, and DuckDB to ingest and clean gov data like NYC 311 and from the NYC Checkbook API. He will show participants how they can build on top of the clean\, curated government data to build applications for the public good. \nAnyone who is interested in using government data to improve the city’s operations and citizens quality of life should attend. \nThe first part of the event will involve understanding the core open source technologies anyone working with data should know. Understanding the logic behind open source tools is important to appreciate how much faster\, cheaper\, and simpler modern data app building is with open source tools. These tools can be applied for anyone’s civic interests and day to day work. The second part of the event will discuss some of the tools I’ve built around open source data. We will discuss using QueryStation.app and NYCStats.app and how New Yorkers can go there to learn about their city.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/building-applications-open-source/
LOCATION:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/building-applications-open-source/
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SUMMARY:Echo{logies}\, Data Through Design Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Echo{logies} is the 2026 exhibition of Data Through Design\, an independent collective who organize an annual art exhibition featuring works that creatively analyze\, interpret\, and interrogate data made available on NYC Open Data. \nVisiting the Exhibition\nThe exhibition is open to the public daily from 12pm to 7 pm during Open Data Week. On March 21\, we will host an opening event that requires RSVP. \nWhen: March 21 – April 5\, 2026\, 12:00pm – 7:00pm \nWhere: BRIC\, 647 Fulton Street (at Rockwell Place)\, Brooklyn\, NY 11217 \nOpening Event: Saturday\, March 21\, 6:30 – 8:30 PM; RSVP. \nAbout Echo{logies}\nThe projects in Echo{logies} work with the bodies of knowledge\, or “-logies”\, that reverberate through New York City’s data. They explore ecosystems and cycles of life expressed in data; the rhythms of growth\, decay\, renewal\, and transformation as they “echo” through data\, and the interplay between human and non-human worlds. \nThis year’s theme engages with questions such as: How can the city\, and data itself\, be understood as ecological and cyclical? How might data be materialized\, embodied\, or inscribed by natural processes? What accumulates\, erodes\, regenerates\, lingers as traces\, or resonates as echoes? \nThe work in this exhibition makes data felt\, witnessed\, or transformed—through physicalization\, interaction\, or by exposing how nature itself records and inscribes change. The artworks engage with living systems\, natural or urban ecologies\, or information ecosystems\, and examine materiality and craft\, murmurations and flows\, entropy and genesis\, and the sublime scale of ecological change. \n\nDesire Paths: Becca Ellsworth & Becca Odell\nHartLine: Ian Callender & Karla Rothstein\nLandscape Workshop: Mark Heller & Mariel Collard Arias\nLinger Loiter: Charlotte Gartenberg & Ivan Himanen\nMetropolitan Cuneiform: Jingrong Zhang\nThe Oracle of Gotham: Karissa Whiting & Elizabeth Costa\nTurnstile Murmurations: Trpti Sanghvi\nUrban Data Orchestra: Composing the Hidden Rhythms of the City: Elina Oikonomaki & Lukas Lesina Debiasi\nWaste Rhythms: Living Records of NYC Communities: HaoChe Hung & Tianxing (Vincent) Zhu\nWild Lots: Craig Fahner & al haley\n\nEcho{logies} is organized and curated by the 2026 Data Through Design team: Julia Bloom\, Tereza Chanaki\, Rachel Daniell\, Jack Darcey\, Sara Eichner\, Justin Roberts\, and Can Sucuoğlu.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/echologies-data-through-design-exhibition/2026-03-27/
LOCATION:BRIC\, 647 Fulton Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:Making Cents of It All: The City's Budget\, Its Data\, and Why It Matters to You!
DESCRIPTION:At more than $118 billion\, New York City’s annual budget is larger than the budgets of all but three U.S. states. It funds everything from parks and libraries to housing programs\, street maintenance\, childcare\, and public safety. But the documents that make up the City’s budget were not designed primarily for public transparency\, they are built to manage spending and comply with accounting rules. As a result\, it can be surprisingly difficult for even experienced observers to understand where the money actually goes. \nIn this session\, the Independent Budget Office’s Logan Clark will walk participants through the basics of how the City’s budget works and how to use publicly available data to better understand the City’s financial position. The session will introduce key budget concepts and vocabulary\, explain why the budget is structured the way it is\, and explore how different datasets can help illuminate city spending and ultimately\, improve service delivery. \nParticipants will get a practical tour of major public resources\, including the Independent Budget Office’s Fiscal History tools\, the Comptroller’s Checkbook NYC tool\, and public datasets from the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget. Attend this event to learn how to begin answering questions about agency spending\, budget trends\, and how public dollars translate into the services New Yorkers experience every day.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/making-cents-of-it-all-the-citys-budget-its-data-and-why-it-matters-to-you/
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SUMMARY:Open Data and Better Questions: Engaging New Yorkers to Develop Questions that Matter in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:As one of the largest open data providers in the world—with data accessed more than 2.6 million times and downloaded from a total of more than 900\,000 times—NYC Open Data has critical information about how New Yorkers live. But a question remains: For what end? What questions do we want these systems to answer? What problems do we want to solve? \nOn Friday\, March 27th from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM at Brooklyn Central Library\, The GovLab\, the Brooklyn Public Library and Alliance for Public Interest Technology at New York University will be hosting a special “Questions Lab” as part of New York City Open Data Week 2026. In it\, we will give New Yorkers the opportunity to formulate good\, data-driven questions about the issues they care about and to meaningfully connect those questions to specific datasets in NYC Open Data or other\, non-traditional repositories. It will include a brief presentation followed by small group discussion on the questions that New Yorkers care about:\n– 2:00 – 2:20 PM: Setting the Scene: Stefaan Verhulst (Co-Founder\, The GovLab)\, Diana Plunkett (Director of Data Analytics\, Brooklyn Public Library)\, and Manny Patole (Senior Fellow\, Alliance for Public Interest Technology) will explain the work that Brooklyn Library and The GovLab are doing to help residents not only understand data that describes them but to engage with it meaningfully to solve problems they care about.\n– 2:20 – 2:50: Topic Mapping and Question Definition: Attendees will be broken into small groups and taught how to define data-driven questions. Each group will focus on a different domain prioritized by the New York Mayor’s Office.\n– 2:50 – 3:30: Group Voting on Questions and Debrief: Each group will present their questions. Referencing NYC Open Data and other datasets\, the collective group will identify what data might exist in New York to answer these questions. They will then vote on which questions they consider the highest priority based on demand\, actionability\, and the larger regulatory context. \nThe end result of this work will be a prioritized mapping of the questions that matter for New Yorkers. This event is open to any New York resident interested in data and how it can be used to set a policy agenda. Participants will leave the event with a practical methodology for developing well-crafted\, data-driven questions and the work they produce will inform new open data research. Register here.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/open-data-and-better-questions-engaging-new-yorkers-to-develop-questions-that-matter-in-the-age-of-ai/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch\, 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11238\, United States of America
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Weaving New York’s Data into Fiber Art
DESCRIPTION:Taking data out of the digital in and into the physical\, in this workshop attendees will learn how to turn data into a tapestry through weaving. Taught by Sarah Kay Miller\, a data visualization designer and artist with a background in knitting\, quilting\, and weaving\, datasets will transform from numbers into colorful and textural works of art. Participants will learn the basics of weaving\, and how to creatively interpret a dataset into art to create a data physicalization. All materials will be provided.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/weaving-new-yorks-data-into-fiber-art/
LOCATION:BRIC\, 647 Fulton Street\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11217\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:NYC PIT Pop Up: CUNY Open Data Takeover Day Five
DESCRIPTION:As part of NYC Open Data Week 2026\, the CUNY Public Interest Technology (PIT) Lab will host a week-long Open Data Takeover of the NYC PIT Pop-Up at the Oculus / World Trade Center. The activation advances Open Data Week’s goals of accessibility\, civic learning\, and practical use of open data by bringing open data projects into a highly visible\, public-facing space. Attendees can drop in at any time during the hours below for a demonstration of the tool and to speak with the presenter. Most of the demos will also be streamed live from the Pop-Up on its Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/cunypitlab). Inside the Oculus\, the Pop-Up is located on the Main Floor C2\, in the South Concourse\, at Shop #53 (next to M.A.C. Cosmetics). View the full PIT Lab schedule. No RSVP needed\, just stop by! \n[2pm–6pm]\nMike Spade – DuBois Does Data\n35 years after slavery\, Du Bois set out to provide a definitive image of the Negro condition in the United States. His data efforts not only quantified economic parity or lack thereof\, he also focused on where people lived\, and how they lived. During the 1900 Paris Exposition\, he shared his findings with the world. But how do those findings hold up 125 years later? What has changed? Has anything stayed the same? At Du Bois Does Data\, engage with his visuals\, portraits\, and data in a multi-sensory experience. Scents derived from the life and experience of W.E.B. Playlists charting the course of Black American music from his birth to his death\, a day before the “I Have A Dream Speech.” Books celebrating his work and a first edition copy of his completed passion project\, Africana. Curated vintage stamps in his image\, portraits\, and his article in Africana will serve as activations for A/R experiences\, bringing the nostalgia into the palm of your hand. In Du Bois Does Data\, we also used Python to evaluate the condition of Black Americans 125 years after his exhibit using Census data in 6 Jupyter Notebooks. \nRay Brescia – Gamifying Know-Your-Rights Information\nThis presentation will explore the power of gamification and then describe one current work in progress\, an online game\, “Haunted Housing\,” that is designed in partnership with community-based advocacy organizations in New York City to educate youth\, particularly from immigrant communities\, about housing rights.  Gamification can be utilized in many other contexts–from immigrants’ rights to school discipline–and I will describe our ground-up method for developing this tool and encourage others to explore similar initiatives in other contexts. \nMerlin Valdez – VoteFeed.org\nVoteFeed.org is a Twitter/Bluesky-like user experience that allows constituents to interact with their respective U.S. representative in congress by sharing their opinion on policies up for vote in the legislative agenda.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-pit-pop-up-cuny-open-data-takeover-day-five/
LOCATION:Oculus World Trade Center\, 185 Greenwich Street\, New York\, New York\, 10006\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:Leveraging Open Data to Build Safe\, Just\, and Thriving Communities
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering will host an evening convening from 4:00–6:00 PM\, followed by a light reception from 6:00–7:00 PM. The event brings together students\, researchers\, public-sector leaders\, and community partners to explore how open urban data informs public decision-making in New York City. The program highlights applied work at the intersection of data science\, governance\, and community outcomes\, with a focus on how publicly available datasets are interpreted and translated into policy and practice. \nThe formal program begins with remarks from CUSP leadership\, followed by 10-minute lightning talks from students and community collaborators showcasing projects grounded in NYC Open Data. These presentations demonstrate how datasets related to public safety\, housing\, health\, and civic accountability are analyzed\, contextualized\, and communicated. The evening continues with a moderated panel discussion led by CUSP’s Debanjan Roychoudhury. Speakers include Alaa Moussawi\, Chief Data Scientist for the New York City Council\, and Sandhya Kajeepeta\, Senior Researcher and Statistician at the Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. The discussion will examine how open data shapes public narratives\, informs institutional decision-making\, and supports cross-sector collaboration. \nA reception will immediately follow the panel\, offering space for informal dialogue\, networking\, and continued cross-sector exchange. The convening is open to participants of all technical backgrounds and emphasizes thoughtful analysis\, responsible data use\, and real-world application within NYC governance systems.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/leveraging-open-data-to-build-safe-just-and-thriving-communities/
LOCATION:NYU CUSP – 370 Jay Street\, 370 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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