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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.
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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
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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.
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