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SUMMARY:Festival Keynote: Rahul Bhargava on Community Data
DESCRIPTION:Join the CUNY Graduate Center for a pre-Open Data Week keynote featuring Rahul Bhargava\, the author of Community Data. Presented by the Masters in Data Analysis and Visualization and the Masters in Digital Humanities programs. \nDatafication has driven the adoption of new quantified processes in civic contexts\, but our tools and methods haven’t adapted to be more participatory and empowering. The traditional toolbox of surveys\, spreadsheets\, and charts wasn’t designed for community settings. Artists\, planners\, designers\, non-profits\, journalists\, and others are pushing the boundaries of data representation in order to meet audiences where they are with impactful multi-sensory data stories. Physical data sculptures\, embodied data theatre\, participatory data murals\, data sonification performance—these are the new practices we need to cultivate in order to engage larger groups of people around data in community settings. Join us to explore how we can hear\, feel\, smell\, and taste our data to create more inclusive data experiences. \nThis event will now be held in room C201/202/203 on the Concourse level of the Graduate Center. Attendees should come in through the main entrance and take the elevator down to the C level.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/festival-keynote-rahul-bhargava-on-community-data/
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center\, 365 5th Avenue\, Room C201/202/203\, New York\, NY\, 10016
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SUMMARY:Vital City: Exploring 30 Years of NYC Crime — and What Comes Next
DESCRIPTION:Join Paul Reeping\, Director of Research at Vital City\, for an interactive session exploring Vital City’s new Crime Data Explorer\, a multi-decade\, precinct-level platform covering complaints\, arrests\, and shootings in New York City. Paul will demonstrate how the tool works\, explain the analytic framework behind it\, and highlight key findings from Vital City’s most recent end-of-year crime report. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of long-term crime trends\, how different categories are measured\, and how to responsibly interpret citywide and neighborhood-level data. \nThe session will also look ahead. After walking through the Explorer\, Paul will preview upcoming data initiatives at Vital City and invite participants to help shape future tools for data visualization\, public safety measurement\, and open data accessibility. This event is ideal for researchers\, journalists\, policymakers\, technologists\, students\, and anyone interested in understanding crime trends and building better public data tools. Expect a mix of live demonstration\, substantive analysis\, and collaborative discussion about what New York City should measure\, visualize\, and build next.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/vital-city-exploring-30-years-of-nyc-crime-and-what-comes-next/
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SUMMARY:Childcare in the City: What NYC Open Data Tells Us About Family Policy
DESCRIPTION:Childcare in the City is a free\, student-led Open Data Week event exploring how NYC Open Data can power public storytelling and policy communication. Undergraduate students from Barnard College analyzed data from the NYC Work and Family Leave Survey and translated their findings into a short podcast featuring expert guests Dr. Meredith Slopen (Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare) and Dr. Jane Waldfogel (Compton Foundation Centennial Professor for the Prevention of Children’s and Youth Problems at Columbia University School of Social Work). \nThe event opens with a live listening of the student-produced podcast\, followed by a moderated talkback with the graduate student mentors\, student creators and expert guests. Together\, they discuss their findings\, the role of open data in civic life\, and what the numbers reveal about childcare and family wellbeing in New York City—a timely topic given ongoing mayoral and gubernatorial conversations around universal childcare. \nThis 90-minute\, in-person and virtual event is held on the Barnard College campus and is open to students\, educators\, researchers\, and anyone interested in open data\, storytelling\, and family policy. Register here.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/childcare-in-the-city-what-nyc-open-data-tells-us-about-family-policy/
LOCATION:Barnard College\, 3009 Broadway\, New York\, New York\, 10027\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:Data for Disaster Recovery and Resilience: Exploring NYCEM's Hazard History Consequence Tool and Recovery Dashboards
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM) uses data to analyze disasters and their impacts to communities across the five boroughs? This session explores how NYCEM’s recovery dashboard assesses disaster damage to identify recovery solutions and funding pathways in real time. The presentation also spotlights NYCEM’s Hazard History and Consequence Tool (HHC)\, a resource that gives City agencies and community partners access to historical data to better understand past hazard events to strengthen future resilience planning.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/data-for-disaster-recovery-and-resilience-exploring-nycems-hazard-history-consequence-tool-and-recovery-dashboards/
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SUMMARY:What's New for Family History
DESCRIPTION:Ken Cobb and Marcia Kirk from the Department of Records and Information Services will present a discussion and demonstration of newly released voter registration records available on Ancestry.com. These records document the period from 1915-1956 and include several important events: women’s right to vote\, both World Wars\, and the Great Depression. \nOpen to researchers and people interested in researching genealogy\, family history\, local history\, voting patterns\, population movement. This is an in-person event at the NYC Department of Records and Information Services\, 31 Chambers Street\, NYC in Room 111.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/whats-new-for-family-history/
LOCATION:NYC Department of Records and Information Services\, 31 Chambers Street Room 111\, New York\, New York\, 10007\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:NYC's Changing Landscape: Discover What's Being Built Around You
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all seen construction sites and scaffolding appear in our neighborhood\, tried to peek through the cracks and wondered: what are they building over there? This presentation will showcase how publicly available NYC Department of Buildings data can be brought together and deployed to give New Yorkers and industry pros alike a birds eye view on what’s rising up in their communities\, all at once and at a glance! \nJoin Bonnie Stefanick\, New Yorker and citizen data scientist\, through a high level overview of how the things that get built show up in permitting data using live demonstrations of data sets that capture the permitting process and a daily view of projects happening in NYC neighborhoods\, while giving a peek under the hood at the data in action from how it is pulled from the open data APIs and brought to life in tools.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nycs-changing-landscape-discover-whats-being-built-around-you/
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SUMMARY:Exploring an Independent Perspective on Emergency Response Times
DESCRIPTION:The NYC Independent Budget Office (IBO) aims to enhance understanding of New York City’s budget\, public policy\, and economy through independent\, data-driven analysis. In this event\, IBO Budget and Policy Analyst Valerie Gudino will showcase how Open Data can be used to analyze and visualize fiscal years 2014-2024 citywide ambulance response times. Valerie will walk through how emergency response and dispatch data can be leveraged to examine patterns in emergency medical response by borough and citywide. This event is ideal for anyone interested in public safety\, emergency response or data visualization. Valerie will present the report findings and conclude with a Q&A session.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/exploring-an-independent-perspective-on-emergency-response-times/
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SUMMARY:The City That Never Sleeps: Forecasting NYC’s Noise Complaints with Bayesian Models
DESCRIPTION:This presentation looks at how everyday noise in New York City changes from neighborhood to neighborhood\, across the days of the week during the summer. Using several years of NYC 311 data\, it goes beyond simply counting complaints to ask a more practical question: how confident can we be that some areas are actually noisier than others? \nData Engineer Moses McCall will introduce Bayesian modeling in an intuitive\, non-technical way\, focusing on uncertainty as something we can measure rather than ignore. Interactive maps will be used alongside the analysis to make citywide patterns easy to explore and compare. Finally\, the models will be tested against more recent data to see how well these patterns hold up over time\, comparing what the models expected with what actually happened.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/the-city-that-never-sleeps/
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SUMMARY:Youth-Driven Map-Making with Open Data / Maps at MIXI Club
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we present projects from Maps @ MIXI\, a mapping club about spatial justice\, open data\, and critical cartography. Throughout the year\, five NYC youth worked on four projects during the club in which they analyzed NYC Open Data and other open data sets like the US Census. The projects span a variety of topics – access to pools\, the housing crisis\, restaurant hygiene ratings\, and youth-targeting police activity. The projects are youth-driven and represent the questions youth bring to open data. \nFirst\, this will briefly introduce the Maps @ MIXI club. Then\, each youth/team will briefly discuss their project\, the motivation behind the work\, and the map they created. \nUnequal Pool Distribution Around NYC and How It Affects Overall Public Health by Zachary Kiselev\nHow can we use NYC Open Data to understand whether pool access is unevenly distributed between neighborhoods\, and how can this be used as a marker for overall public health? \nUsing NYC Open Data to Understand the Causes of New York City’s Housing Crisis by Oleksandra Borysova\nHow can NYC Open Data show why NYC has a housing crisis by looking at vacancy\, rents\, wages\, population changes\, transportation\, and Airbnb listings? \nPredicting Restaurant Hygiene Grades Across New York City by Gab Dechirico and Mariam Khan\nIn New York City\, to what extent do neighborhood socioeconomic indicators and cuisine types predict a restaurant’s likelihood of receiving an “A” hygiene grade\, after accounting for inspection frequency and violation patterns? \nPolicing and Youth: Analyzing Police Stops of Youth in New York City by Wen Chen\nHow does the racial composition of youth subjected to police stops within 700 feet of NYC public schools differ from the racial composition of youth residing in the surrounding census tracts?
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/youth-driven-map-making-with-open-data-maps-at-mixi-club/
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SUMMARY:Mapping Emergency Food Needs in NYC
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, NYC community-based organizations and City government work to supply millions of pounds of food directed toward people in need through the Community Food Connection Program. Determining how to distribute limited resources to where they are needed the most\, the city leverages data-driven approaches to bring food to those in need using the Supply Gap Analysis. In this workshop\, you’ll learn how data insights can shape decision-making\, collaboration\, and support organizers like you to make more informed decisions that facilitate food security for our communities. \nLed by Ora Kemp and Lauren Drumgold from the NYC Mayor’s Office of Food Policy\, this session will include insights from the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity & Community Food Connection administrators\, whose work supports over 700 food pantries and soup kitchens across the city\, leveraging insights from the supply gap analysis in areas of unmet need. \nIdeal for food security advocates\, academics\, students\, data analysts and anyone else interested in food-related issues and data\, the workshop will provide answers to questions about neighborhood food security metrics\, how need for emergency food is defined and measured\, and how to leverage the dataset to support neighborhood and/or organizational strategies to close the gap. You will have a chance to interact with the Emergency Food Supply Gap dataset using NYC Open Data tools to pose your own strategic insights to support food security.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/mapping-emergency-food-needs-in-nyc/
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SUMMARY:The Newest New Yorkers: How Immigrant Groups Navigate Visa Pathways
DESCRIPTION:New York is a city of immigrants\, but its makeup is shaped by U.S. immigration laws. Join Donnise Hurley\, a senior geographic analyst at the New York City Department of City Planning\, for a preview of the upcoming publication of The Newest New Yorkers\, 2026 where she analyzes federal data from the Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) to reveal the hidden impact of immigration policy on New York City’s demographic landscape. You will receive a snapshot of the lawful permanent resident (i.e.\, “green card”) categories most used by foreign-born groups during the 2010s and see how these admission patterns have shifted over time. You will also gain clarity on the difference between OHSS administrative data on lawful permanent residents and the more familiar U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) data on the characteristics of the foreign-born population overall. Whether you are a New Yorker curious about your community or a researcher\, librarian\, or policymaker\, this talk offers insight into how the law sets the parameters for immigration flows to the city.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/the-newest-new-yorkers-how-immigrant-groups-navigate-visa-pathways/
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SUMMARY:What 13 Million 311 Complaints Reveal About New York City's Quality of Life
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, David Tussey — retired technology executive and former executive director in the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT\, now OTI) — presents a data-driven Quality of Life Index built entirely from NYC’s 311 Service Request open dataset. Drawing on more than 13 million complaint records spanning 2020 through 2025\, the analysis tracks 30 complaint categories across five quality-of-life domains — from shelter conditions and neighborhood cleanliness to street safety and social distress — and measures how each has changed relative to a pre-established baseline. The methodology\, developed with guidance from mentor Dr. Jun Yan of the University of Connecticut Department of Statistics\, applies seasonally adjusted indexing and Statistical Process Control techniques to surface meaningful trends in public service demand. \nParticipants will see a live walkthrough of the analytical pipeline built in R using NYC Open Data\, including data preparation\, index computation\, and publication-ready visualizations. The session is part demonstration\, part methodology discussion\, and part provocation — the findings raise real questions about urban quality of life that city agencies\, policymakers\, and engaged New Yorkers will want to wrestle with. \nThis session is ideal for city employees working in technology or data roles\, academics and students interested in applied urban analytics\, and anyone curious about what 311 data can reveal when you look beyond individual complaints. No prior technical background is required to follow the findings\, though data practitioners will find the methodology discussion valuable. Attendees are encouraged to come with questions.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/what-13-million-311-complaints-reveal-about-new-york-citys-quality-of-life/
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SUMMARY:How NYC Open Data Guided a Review of Initiatives to Improve Bus Speeds in New York City
DESCRIPTION:Buses are the second-most important mode of transportation for New Yorkers and visitors alike\, serving over 1.4 million riders daily. Yet\, to no one’s surprise\, they can be frustratingly slow. Traffic congestion\, construction detours\, double-parked vehicles\, and limited dedicated infrastructure all contribute to sluggish bus speeds. In early 2025\, the New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) released a report analyzing city and state initiatives aimed at improving bus speeds\, including one of the most ambitious efforts—the New York City Streets Plan. Enacted in 2019 through City Council legislation\, the plan legally requires the NYC Department of Transportation to expand the city’s bus lane network\, with a goal of building over 150 miles of protected bus lanes by 2026. \nIn this presentation\, IBO budget and policy analyst Jan Mendez will guide attendees through some of the report’s biggest findings\, including how New York City bus speeds compare to other major cities across the United States\, bus ridership trends\, a historical analysis of bus speeds across the five boroughs\, the impact of funding and staffing challenges on implementation of the New York City Streets Plan\, and more! We’ll also explore an interactive map with data on all New York City bus lanes\, available to the public and created by the Independent Budget Office. \nThe New York City Independent Budget Office provides impartial\, nonpartisan information and analysis of the NYC budget\, and conducts policy research and analysis\, particularly on aspects of City government with notable fiscal and direct human impacts on New Yorkers. If you’re interested in a complex and analytical discussion on bus speeds and bus service\, or in transportation issues in general\, we invite you to attend!
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/how-nyc-open-data-guided-a-review-of-initiatives-to-improve-bus-speeds-in-new-york-city/
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SUMMARY:Measuring Poverty Using Census Bureau Data
DESCRIPTION:Join Census Bureau data dissemination specialists Joli Golden and Monica Dukes to learn about the datasets that the Census uses to measure poverty\, how the Census defines poverty measures\, and the numerous data tools you can access to explore poverty by geographic area and demographic group. You will see how to access the most recent poverty briefs and reports and poverty data tables. We will also introduce SAIPE\, a tool for Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates. \nA Census Bureau poverty Subject Matter Expert will be on hand to answer your questions live in the chat and at the end of the presentation.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/measuring-poverty-using-census-bureau-data/
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SUMMARY:PLUTO and City of Yes: How NYC Planning turns legislation into data
DESCRIPTION:City of Yes for Housing Opportunity is a city-wide zoning text amendment that addresses New York City’s housing crisis by making it possible to build a little more housing in every neighborhood. It was adopted by the City Council in December 2024 and is already being put to use to create homes across all five boroughs. \nHow do legislative changes translate to data changes? How can new and old zoning tools be reflected in land use data? What do people need to know about the City’s tax lots to make informed decisions? \nIn this session\, the Data Engineering team from the NYC Department of City Planning (DCP) will share how the agency added new fields to one of it’s most popular datasets: PLUTO. New fields about Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) and transit zones will soon be available in PLUTO to give data users a more complete picture of the City’s zoning and land use. \nDCP subject matter experts in zoning\, housing\, and transportation worked with engineers to understand the relevant Zoning Resolution text\, the intentions of City of Yes amendments\, and the data necessary to relate them to every tax lot in the City. Attendees will learn about the processes\, decisions\, and surprises that have been a part of this journey through legislation\, code\, and open data.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/pluto-and-city-of-yes-how-nyc-planning-turns-legislation-into-data/
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SUMMARY:Establishing a Central Data Function at a Public Agency
DESCRIPTION:Using data insights to make decisions is what every organization seeks to do\, but there are many reasons why this doesn’t happen in practice: data is hard to find\, it is siloed and inaccessible\, it is undocumented and difficult to understand\, it is too large or complex for the skills and tools available. All these problems existed at Metropolitan Transportation Authority \n(MTA) and were the motivation for the recent establishment of a central data team\, which has the goal of facilitating analytical work for teams all across the company. Standing up such a team is challenging\, especially for public sector agencies with many internal and external stakeholders\, legacy systems and limited resources. In this talk\, Andy Kuziemko\, who leads the Data & Analytics team at the MTA\, will describe the progress to date at the agency\, lessons learned along the way\, and the remaining challenges the agency faces.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/establishing-a-central-data-function-at-a-public-agency/
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SUMMARY:Marron Institute of Urban Management Presents: Open Data in Action
DESCRIPTION:The Marron Institute of Urban Management will host an afternoon of presentations featuring research from its Transportation and Land Use\, Civic Analytics\, and Health\, Environment and Policy programs\, alongside NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s City Health Dashboard and Congressional District Health Dashboard. The event will highlight how these teams apply open data to advance research and policy in transportation\, urban systems and public health. \n\nPresenters will discuss how they compile\, integrate\, and analyze complex datasets to inform urban policy and decision-making. They will also share approaches for making data accessible to broader audiences\, including strategies for transparency\, effective communication\, and open access to data and research findings. \nThis event is intended for anyone interested in how data-driven research can strengthen policymaking\, expand access to information\, and promote more transparent\, equitable\, and effective public sector decisions. \nLight refreshments will be provided. \nSchedule:\n1:00 – 1:05  Introduction\n1:05 – 1:45  Transportation and Land Use Program (Marron Institute): Elif Ensari\, Research Scholar and Program Deputy Director\, Franklin Tang\, Assistant Research Scholar.\n1:45 – 2:25  Civic Analytics Program (Marron Institute): Bartosz Bonczak\, Research Scientist and Lab Manager\, Callie Clark\, Doctoral Researcher.\nBreak\n2:40 – 3:20  Health\, Environment\, and Policy Program (Marron Institute): Noussair Lazrak\, Research Scientist.\n3:20 – 4:00  City Health Dashboard and the Congressional District Health Dashboard (NYU Grossman School of Medicine): Ben R. Spoer\, Program Director.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/marron-institute-of-urban-management-presents-open-data-in-action/
LOCATION:Marron Institute\, 370 Jay Street Room 1201\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201
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SUMMARY:Feeding New York: The Hidden Burden on the South Bronx
DESCRIPTION:New York City’s food supply chain relies on a distribution system dependent on diesel trucks\, creating compounding environmental and economic burdens in the South Bronx. This session\, hosted by independent researcher Dan DeWitz\, examines Hunts Point—home to the city’s largest wholesale food distribution hub—through the intersecting lenses of air quality\, poverty\, and climate risk. Participants will learn to critically evaluate environmental data\, test the statistical significance of neighborhood-level air quality differences\, and understand the limitations of relying on existing monitoring systems as “ground truth.” \nLooking forward\, the session explores policy alternatives to the current model. By mapping Metro-North and LIRR rail lines alongside regional farmland and underserved communities\, we will examine the untapped potential of existing transit infrastructure to reduce diesel emissions and improve food access. With portions of Hunts Point projected to flood under future climate scenarios\, change is not just desirable—it is inevitable. \nThis event is ideal for anyone interested in environmental justice\, urban planning\, transportation policy\, food systems\, or applied data science. Whether you are a community advocate\, policymaker\, student\, or curious New Yorker\, you will leave with a deeper understanding of the data behind urban inequality and practical frameworks for solutions.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/feeding-new-york-the-hidden-burden-on-the-south-bronx/
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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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/
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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: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/
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SUMMARY:How Trash Can\, Monuments\, and Trees Data Drive Walking Tour Design
DESCRIPTION:Baruch College and New York University students will present their results from mining the litter basket dataset available from NYC Open Data sources. Students will demonstrate how this data combination of other datasets to identify famous places\, plaques\, statues\, trees and famous buildings in the Gramercy Flatiron neighborhoods. \nThese presentations will be based on data from the NYC Department of Sanitation\, monuments and plaque datasets and tree census data from the NYC Parks Department. Students will discuss famous and unique places next to litter cans in the Gramercy Flatiron including famous statues and unique places in Madison Sq. Park\, eateries on 5th Ave\, the farmers market in Union Square and Broadway\, notable homes of Dutch\, English and Americans in Gramercy Park \nNothing to do with dumpster diving\, but everything to do with leveraging unique data sets from NYC Open Data  the presentations will demonstrate how combining a myriad of datasets can drive new community gathering places and economic development. \nPresentations begin at 1:30pm. Meet in front of the Baruch College Welcome Center at 137A East 25th Street. The building is located in a pedestrian plaza between 3rd Ave and Lexington Ave. Attendance is limited to 30 people. Please bring an ID card (like a driver’s license) that will allow you to get through security.  \nBefore this discussion\, join the related walking tour that starts at 12 p.m..
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/how-trash-can-monuments-and-trees-data-drive-walking-tour-design/
LOCATION:Baruch College Welcome Center\, 137 East 25th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10010
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