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SUMMARY:A Treasure Hunt through NYC Open Data
DESCRIPTION:Unlock the secrets of the city in this interactive data treasure hunt! We will present a series of data-driven prompts guiding attendees through unique statistical signatures found in NYC Open Data covering topics like taxis\, crime\, schools\, and parks. Participants will spend the session solving progressively difficult analytical questions\, requiring everything from simple lookups to complex cross-referencing across datasets. \nAs we discuss the answer to each prompt\, a panel of experts from the New York City Chapter of The American Statistical Association will take the investigation one step deeper\, presenting a bite-sized lesson on a statistical concept related to the question. Attendees will learn about tools that can be adapted to many other settings\, such as distributional thinking\, outlier detection\, hypothesis testing\, and exploratory data analysis. The session culminates in a final puzzle: figuring out the hidden theme that connects all the mystery answers together. This session is ideal for data scientists\, students\, civic tech enthusiasts\, or anyone looking to sharpen their analytical toolkit\, open data scientific educational opportunity for all\, undergraduate and graduate students very welcome.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/a-treasure-hunt-through-nyc-open-data/
LOCATION:Google NYC\, 111 8th Avenue 14th Floor\, New York\, New York\, 10011\, United States of America
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Open Data Lightning Talk Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Come to the NYC Office of Technology & Innovation offices at 2 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn for a series of lightning talks\, each of which explores how open data interacts with aspects of everyday life. Afterwards\, join us for a happy hour a few blocks away at Sound & Fury Brewery and Kitchen (141 Lawrence St\, Brooklyn). \nThese lightning talks will cover projects on the price of groceries\, picking public schools\, deciding delivery routes\, applying to city jobs and compliance for small property owners. Full details of the talks will be added as they get confirmed. \nAndre Debuisne “Using Open Data to accurately generate hyperlocal delivery routes in NYC”\nHudson Shipping Co generates its own delivery routes using in-house optimization technology. Part of the input data comes from NYC Open Data\, which helps the last-mile operator find the best route for a given day\, based on road conditions\, planned street closures and many other data points. \nAdrian Liang “Applying to NYC’s public high schools by harnessing NYC Open Data resources”\nEvery year\, over 70\,000 NYC public middle school students take part in the high school application process. This involves researching and deciding what programs to list on applications from over 900 possible high school program choices. NYC-SIFT aggregates public data from over 20 different datasets found on NYC Open Data and NYC DOE InfoHub. This talk will include a discussion of relevant datasets\, how this data is organized\, and how students and parents use this data to make informed decisions during the high school application process. \nCharles Ludwig “One Search\, 4\,000+ Careers: Unifying New York’s Public Sector Government Job Market”\nNavigating public service careers shouldn’t require checking ten different websites. This talk explores the development of NY Gov Jobs\, a unified platform that aggregates over 4\,000 active salaried listings across NYC City agencies\, New York State\, CUNY\, SUNY\, the MTA\, public health systems\, and the NYPL. We’ll discuss the technical challenges of normalizing data from multiple jurisdictions and how a single\, browser-friendly interface can democratize access to public sector employment.\n \nShiva Muthiah “PriceWise – A community-built grocery price database for budget-conscious people”\nThis talk will demo the tool PriceWise (https://www.pricewise.nyc) — a community database of food prices that helps people digitize purchase receipts and draws from NYC Open Data to connect them with stores and neighborhoods. As New Yorkers struggle with inflation\, this tool aims to help them work together to pool pricing information. \nParris Taylor “From Transparency to Decision Infrastructure”\nNew York City has achieved something rare: a deeply structured\, publicly accessible regulatory data ecosystem. But access is not the same as usability\, and transparency is not the same as prevention. As an operator managing real assets in NYC\, I’ve seen how DOB\, HPD\, FDNY\, and DOF datasets remain difficult to operationalize for small property owners. Compliance still requires interpretation\, coordination\, and judgment across fragmented systems. This session explores how open data can evolve from static reporting to structured decision support. Using Brick\, a compliance tool that helps identify regulations\, as a case study\, we will examine entity resolution across BBL and BIN identifiers and the role of AI in translating public datasets into building-specific risk signals and guided action.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/open-data-lightning-talk-showcase/
LOCATION:Office of Technology and Innovation\, 2 MetroTech Center 5th Floor\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:Querying Big Bus Data off of the Open Data Portal
DESCRIPTION:In this training\, data scientists on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Data & Analytics team will teach attendees how to query big bus data off of the Socrata-powered open data portals using Socrata Query Language (SoQL). The first half of the session will be done entirely using in-browser tools\, no special software required! \nFor the second half of the session\, we’ll dive deeper into how to join bus route segment speed data to geospatial shapes in order to create map-based visuals. Python experience recommended to those who want to follow along\, though all are welcome to listen in and learn! A URL to a GitHub repository will be added to this event page at a later date.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/querying-big-bus-data-off-of-the-open-data-portal/
CATEGORIES:Demonstration
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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/
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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SUMMARY:NYC Agency Maps\, Tools\, & Geospatial Data for 2026
DESCRIPTION:New York City agencies create and publish a huge volume of geospatial data each year. They use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – computer-based tools to store\, visualize\, and analyze this geographic data. This panel will review publicly-available tools and datasets\, discuss the state of GIS technology in the city\, and consider how the City uses geospatial data to serve NYC residents.  Join this conversation with agency GIS leaders about new maps & tools\, geospatial data\, and initiatives for 2026. \nModerator\nLee Ilan\, NYC Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation \nPanelists\nJosh Friedman\, NYC Emergency Management\nMatt Croswell\, NYC Department of City Planning\nAdam Barin\, NYC Mayor’s Office of Operations
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-agency-maps-tools-geospatial-data-for-2026/
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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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/
CATEGORIES:Presentation
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SUMMARY:Walk the Data: Mapping User Experience (UX) Mobility on NYC Streets
DESCRIPTION:Join this hands-on walking workshop that turns NYC streets into a living lab! Together\, we will test a custom\, data-enabled pedestrian routing system built from publicly available layers such as sidewalks\, pedestrian ramps\, traffic volumes\, thermal comfort\, tree canopy\, and other walkability indicators. The goal is to see what these datasets capture about moving through the city and what they miss. This approach\, called UX Mobility routing\, was developed and tested in Milan and is now being applied to a selected NYC area to spark new insights on inclusive\, experience-aware mobility. \nLed by moderators from Systematica and Transform Transport\, participants will follow the predefined route in small groups and use a simple guided toolkit to document the sensory\, cognitive\, emotional\, and physical side of the walk. We will consider factors like noise\, crowding\, comfort\, clarity\, and perceived safety\, then compare lived experience with what the mapped layers suggest. The session concludes with a collective data–experience gap map and a set of takeaways on how NYC Open Data could better reflect real walkability through new layers\, combinations of data\, or proxy indicators such as using traffic patterns to estimate noise. Open to everyone\, with no technical background needed\, all mobility levels welcome\, and materials provided. \nThe meeting point for this event will be in front of 5 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/walk-the-data-mapping-user-experience-ux-mobility-on-nyc-streets/
LOCATION:Metrotech Walk\, Metrotech Walk\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:Mapping Green Space Access: Turn Data into Community Action
DESCRIPTION:A workshop that uses NYC Open Data to map green space access gaps\, not just where parks exist\, but who can actually reach them. We’ll identify transit barriers\, unsafe pedestrian routes\, and vacant lots with conversion potential\, then equip participants with concrete tools to turn that analysis into community advocacy. \nThe core question isn’t whether parks are near enough\, it’s whether people can access them. A park two miles away with no bus route might as well not exist for the people who need it most. Participants will learn to map those gaps and identify actionable solutions: Which bus route needs extending? Which vacant lot could become a neighborhood green space? Which crosswalk is missing? This workshop is about democratizing spatial analysis so that communities\, not just planners\, have the data to advocate for themselves. \nBy the end\, participants will have learned what it takes to create a working map of access gaps in a neighborhood of their choosing\, a set of targeted recommendations\, and guidance on how to present that data to the decision-makers who can act on it. \nThis event will be held at the Little Red School House\, 272 Avenue of the Americas.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/mapping-green-space-access-turn-data-into-community-action/
LOCATION:Little Red School House\, 272 6th Avenue\, New York\, New York\, 10014\, United States of America
CATEGORIES:Demonstration
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SUMMARY:Open Data about Mobility
DESCRIPTION: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. \nHighlighted 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. \nCome 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.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/open-data-about-mobility/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T190000
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SUMMARY:YPT x MTA x DOT Open Data Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a happy hour celebrating all of the great open data we have available about mobility in New York City! This happy hour is hosted by Young Professionals in Transportation\, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority\, and the NYC Department of Transportation. You do not need to be a member of any of these organizations to join\, all are welcome! \nThis happy hour is taking place at Amity Hall Downtown\, 80 W 3rd St\, Manhattan. \nBefore the happy hour\, join the MTA and DOT for a virtual event about mobility data.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/ypt-x-mta-x-dot-open-data-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Amity Hall Downtown\, 80 W 3rd St\, New York\, New York\, 10012\, United States of America
CATEGORIES:Networking
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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/
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SUMMARY:NYC PIT Pop Up: CUNY Open Data Takeover Day Four
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]\nMasaru Kakutani – From Data to Action: Addressing NYC Winter Heating Complaints with Data Visualization\nI want to show how anyone interested in actionable policy can\, with the help of generative AI\, quickly create convincing stories. This demonstration is designed to help anyone who is interested in generating clear policy suggestions using NYC Data. A standard generative AI will assist in developing policy suggestions\, but the template ensures that the AI provides only support\, not direction or guidance\, for those interested in creating policies. \nLisa Mae Fielder – MTA Performance Metrics\nThe MTA’s dashboard\, metrics.mta.info\, which is built entirely off of open data\, is going through a major redesign in 2026. We’d like to collect user feedback to better understand features and visuals that the civic tech community would want. \nMichael Freedman – crashcount.nyc: an open data tool for safe-streets advocacy\nCrashcount.nyc is a public\, open-data–driven tool that uses NYC Open Data and AI to document and contextualize traffic crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists\, with the goal of supporting safer-streets advocacy at the neighborhood and district level. This session will demonstrate how publicly available NYC datasets—particularly traffic crash data—can be transformed into clear\, actionable narratives that help communities understand where traffic violence is increasing and how it relates to policy decisions\, street design\, and enforcement. The presentation will walk through the structure of Crashcount.nyc\, the datasets it relies on\, and the design decisions behind presenting complex data in a way that is usable by advocates\, journalists\, and community members without technical backgrounds.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-pit-pop-up-cuny-open-data-takeover-day-four/
LOCATION:Oculus World Trade Center\, 185 Greenwich Street\, New York\, New York\, 10006\, United States of America
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:**RSVP CLOSED** From Data to Policy: How the NYC Council Turns City Data Into Action
DESCRIPTION:Join the NYC Council Data Team for an inside look at how open and administrative data drive policymaking at the Council. In this interactive exhibition\, Senior Data Scientist Reese Hirota and Data Scientists Taylor Francisco\, Danylo Orlov\, and Erik Brown will showcase four tools designed for evidence-based decision-making. From tracking citywide trends in domestic violence and evaluating Vision Zero safety interventions to mapping public restroom equity and optimizing fieldwork with StoopLoops\, attendees will see firsthand how raw datasets become transparent tools for the public. \nThis session is ideal for civic tech enthusiasts\, policy researchers\, and engaged New Yorkers eager to understand the “how” behind city oversight. The event will feature 40 minutes of guided walkthroughs focused on the design and impact of these platforms\, followed by an interactive Q&A. During the session\, participants will have the opportunity to explore the dashboards themselves\, engaging directly with the team to uncover data-driven insights relevant to their own communities. \nBy bridging the gap between raw information and legislative action\, these projects demonstrate that open data is the essential foundation for a more equitable NYC. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how the Council identifies citywide needs\, tracks outcomes\, and makes the policymaking process more transparent and data-informed. Registration closes at 2 p.m.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/from-data-to-policy-how-the-nyc-council-turns-city-data-into-action__trashed/
LOCATION:New York City Council\, 250 Broadway 8th Floor\, Overflow Room\, New York\, NY\, 10007
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Civic Media for Advocacy Across Amenity Gaps with Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:While initiatives like Mapping for Equity document what exists (or doesn’t exist) in public spaces\, these gaps must be communicated or demonstrated so that community demand for invisible\, unbuilt amenities can be recorded. Open Streetmap has a few ways to note desire or proposed amenities\, but civic media can also help. inCitu\, a NYC-based augmented reality company\, proposes AR as a tool to bridge this gap: by combining data from projects like Mapping for Equity and Spatial Equity NYC with augmented reality (AR) visualization\, communities can create compelling artifacts\, like AR videos and mockups\, that advocate for repair\, preservation\, and creation of public space infrastructure where it’s needed most. This session will present a sample workflow\, from scanning an existing amenity to creating an AR video of it in a new location\, and will be followed by open discussion on civic design considerations how this method might contribute to existing efforts.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/civic-media-for-advocacy-across-amenity-gaps-with-augmented-reality/
CATEGORIES:Demonstration
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SUMMARY:NYC School of Data 2026
DESCRIPTION:NYC School of Data is BetaNYC’s community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around open data\, technology\, and service design. This year’s conference helps conclude NYC Open Data Week and features 40+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology\, data\, and design community! Our conversations and workshops will feed your mind and inspire you to improve your neighborhood. \nTo attend\, you need to purchase tickets. The venue is accessible\, and the content is all-ages friendly! If you have accessibility questions or needs\, please email the BetaNYC team at schoolofdata@beta.nyc. \nThank you to Reinvent Albany for their support as Lead Partner and helping cover conference costs to make it possible to meet in 2026. Additional sponsors include HaydenAI\, SVA Masters in Data Visualization and Communication\, Nava\, The Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon. and Cyvl.  \nIf you can’t join us in person\, tune into the main stage live stream provided by the Internet Society New York Chapter. Follow the conversation #NYCSoData on Bluesky. \nPurchase your tickets here.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-school-of-data/
LOCATION:CUNY School of Law\, 2 Ct Square W\, Long Island City\, New York\, 11101\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:NYC UnSchool of Data 2026
DESCRIPTION:UnSchool of Data is BetaNYC’s open space unconference for networking\, co-creating\, and learning. It brings together city residents\, technologists\, civic leaders\, students\, advocates\, policy nerds\, government staff\, elected officials\, journalists\, designers\, and more to leverage open data to tackle some of the most pressing issues in NYC and beyond. \nIt’s a community driven day for turning open data into civic solutions. \nUnSchool of Data has these underlying goals: \n\nConvene community members to share civic insights and ideas.\nCreate processes/projects that people will use for further action.\nFoster formal and informal communities of practice and action.\n\nLearn more about UnSchool of Data and how it works at www.schoolofdata.nyc/unschool.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-unschool-of-data/
LOCATION:CUNY School of Law\, 2 Ct Square W\, Long Island City\, New York\, 11101\, United States of America
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