Please join us for the launch of myPB - a new civic engagement tool from the Participatory Budgeting Project. This mobile-first web application uses NYC Open Data to surface the status of all the projects funded through Participatory Budgeting in New York City since 2012.

Join us on Saturday, 3 March 2017, for NYC School of Data — a community technology conference that demystifies complex ideas and fosters local civic engagement.

This community-driven conference is organized by BetaNYC - NYC's Civic technology, data, and design community. Our conversations and workshops will empower you to improve our neighborhoods and our lives. The day is framed to celebrate NYC’s transformative open data law and International Open Data Day, while kicking off NYC’s second annual open data week.

This year’s conversations will focus on four key areas: digital literacy & privacy, smart & wise cities, effective & open government, and civic & government technology.

In addition to 12 exciting panels and workshops, all participants are welcomed to a #hackhall — a daylong open space for open source civic & government technology projects. In the #hackhall, you will collaborate, connect to new libraries/projects, and improve open source projects.

Join designers, programmers, engineers, data scientists, transportation experts, and committed citizens to tackle one of several challenges facing the city as part of the L-train shutdown scheduled for April 2019.

The Open Data L-Train Innovation Challenge will open up the problem to the public and facilitate collaborative teams to solve a number of challenges posed by the shutdown through a sustainability lens. The shutdown will repair the tunnels damaged by Hurricane Sandy connecting Manhattan to Brooklyn and will last 15-18 months.

Roughly 400,000 people ride the L-train with 225,000 of them riding between Brooklyn and Manhattan daily.

Participants will hear the social, economic, and environmental challenges currently facing the city and pertaining to the L-train shutdown.

Participants will then select a challenge, form teams, review data sets and capture new ideas on how to mitigate sustainability impacts from the L-train shutdown. Data sets will be provided by the MTA, Taxi and Limousine Commission, NYNJ Port Authority, Waze, and MoDA. Expert mentors will support teams as they develop their solutions.

Objectives

• Capture new ideas on how to mitigate sustainability impacts from the L-train shutdown.
• Use open data to foster sustainable mobility
• Work collaboratively with multiple city agencies, citizens and private sector for innovation

A panel of judges will select the best ideas. We will then share next steps on moving the best ideas forward to bring together open data, a sustainability lens and citizen-led innovation for a new way of approaching some of the challenges facing the city in the face of the L-train shutdown.

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30 - Registration and breakfast

9:30 - 10:00 - Kickoff (agenda and objectives)

10:00 - 11:00 - Keynote, L-train shutdown background and challenges from a sustainability perspective (including a social, environmental and economic)

11:00 - 12:00 - Choose teams, challenges and initial idea generation

12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 - Work (continue ideation and research)

14:30 - 15:00 - Break to share ideas in plenary

15:00 - 17:00 - Work (prototyping)

17:00 - 18:00 - Presentations and judging

18:00 - 19:00 - Happy hour and showcase

The all-day event is part of NYC Open Data Week and is made possible through partnerships with Grand Central Tech Hub, Dell, the Department of Transportation, and the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) and many more contributors.

If you would like to learn more about this and partner with us please contact Rodrigo Bautista at r.bautista@forumforthefuture.org

Due to the severe storm warning for Wednesday March 7th this event will be rescheduled for a later date. Email: aschmoeker@analytics.nyc.gov if you're looking for updates.

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Come join this hands-on workshop exploring publicly available datasets using the Python programming language. No previous experience assumed. Bring your own laptop or use one of ours!

This event is rescheduled to April 7th due to the severe storm on March 7th.

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Join General Assembly and Premier Group for the latest edition of Premier Talks NYC. This event will feature four industry-leading experts, who will dive into how Data Science is being utilized, and how it will continue to drive change.

In this workshop, we will tackle the following question: “How might we use NYC open data and CrossCompute platform to create tools for decision-makers in business, agency or civil service non-for-profit organizations, NYC residents, and the general public.” Students from Queens College will present tools they have created that use NYC Open Data. CrossCompute is a platform that enables developers and data analysts to build tools for decision makers. Many tools have been created on the CrossCompute platform that uses open source data. Data Science professionals will provide a tutorial on how to use CrossCompute to create tools that analyze NYC Open Data.

The goal of this event is to engage the different campuses, schools and departments of the NYU community in a discussion about the topics of NYC Open Data and open data in general. Many courses, research groups and other organizations use open data. We want to see what these different groups are doing and to open avenues for collaborations.

Data Through Design is an art exhibit showcasing works based on open data under the theme 8 Questions for the City. An open call was held and pieces were selected that address issues like: what consequences do our choices about zoning have for the people traveling our streets? Or, what do NYC civil servants do? Collectively, these works reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data.

Artists: Mathura Govindarajan, Jill Hubley, So Yeon Jeong, Ye Eun Jeong, David Lockard, Jeremy Neiman, Seungmin Ellen Oh, James Proctor and Pitch Interactive, Juan Francisco Saldarriaga, Steven Sanchez, and TWO-N.

http://datathroughdesign.com

From healthcare and finance to public safety and government, organizations are finding new ways to solve business problems with non-traditional data sources. Hear from experts who have navigated the opportunities, approaches, and ethics of using non-traditional data to power innovation.

This workshop is a part of the Zahn Innovation Summit and will be focused on learning how to use the NYC Open Data Portal in partnership with Socrata and the CCNY Masters of Public Administration program. As part of your $25 registration (with the coupon code DATA), you also get access to the entire Summit, see the Zahn Innovation Summit page for more details.

The Zahn Innovation Summit brings together a diverse set of leaders in the NYC startup space with emerging entrepreneurs at the City College of New York in Harlem. The summit includes workshops to build skills, a fireside chat about unique opportunities in NYC, and a discussion about the power of investment in non-traditional founders. Participants will also meet the current class of startups at the Zahn Center. This exciting event is brought to you in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Tech + Innovation as part of Open Data Week, NYC EDC, Silicon Harlem, and Futureworks.

Register with coupon code DATA for discounted admission.

The Office of Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, OpenGov, and key partners, will unveil and demonstrate a Brooklyn Data Commons web portal to host federated housing data from a variety of governmental, non-governmental, and research institutions. The portal will allow organizations to share, validate, and bolster their findings and research on affordable housing issues by triangulating data from multiple trusted sources to show trends and threats to affordable housing in Brooklyn.

Due to the snowstorm this event is being rescheduled for a later date. Stay tuned for more details and email events@metro.org with any questions.

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This workshop will present a crash course on working with NYC Open Data sets and their accompanying data dictionaries. We will learn how data dictionaries are created and build mechanisms to improve the quality of these important resources.

Subsidized tickets are available upon request to: events@metro.org

Come explore the Future City Lab in the Museum of the City of New York’s New York at Its Core exhibition, a cutting-edge space where visitors explore the big challenges facing the city in the coming decades. Participants will tour the Lab with its director and learn how the curators harnessed data to create a large map display and data visualizations, and can virtually design housing, a park, or a street of the future in an immersive interactive experience.

Come explore the Future City Lab in the Museum of the City of New York’s New York at Its Core exhibition, a cutting-edge space where visitors explore the big challenges facing the city in the coming decades. Participants will tour the Lab with its director and learn how the curators harnessed data to create a large map display and data visualizations, and can virtually design housing, a park, or a street of the future in an immersive interactive experience.

NOTE: This event is now cancelled due to the impending snowstorm on Wednesday March 7th. The event will not be rescheduled; we will have to try again for the 7th anniversary of the Open Data Law in 2019.

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Community gathering on the steps of City Hall to commemorate the anniversary of the NYC Open Data Law, passed on March 7, 2012. Join us and celebrate Open Government and Open Data! More details to come.

School bullying and harassment are serious issues that affect the safety of young students. NYC public schools have taken steps to address these issues with an $8M plan that includes funding to launch an online portal for families to report instances of bullying, harassment, or discrimination. Though that data is not yet available, the Data Clinic, Two Sigma's pro-bono data science and technology arm, set out to examine the existing publicly-available datasets on bullying and harassment in NYC public schools. These sources include the NYC School Survey from the NYC Open Data Portal and federal data on bullying and harassment in NYC schools as reported to the Office for Civil Rights. The overall goal of this project was to explore and evaluate the differences and similarities between different sources of open data. For example, what are the questions being asked in the different surveys to capture similar issues surrounding bullying and harassment in NYC public schools? Are there associations or inconsistencies between the two surveys?

This 2-part event will begin with a presentation by the Data Clinic covering the methodology and challenges in accessing and merging datasets as well as initial findings and potential next steps, followed by a panel discussion highlighting different perspectives on education survey data. Topics for discussion may include:

Is it useful to combine local data with federal data on NYC schools? Why might there be discrepancies between the two data sources? How should the public best use and interpret data from different sources? What are some ways to make the data easier to use and understand? What are some other resources (data or otherwise) the public can access to investigate school bullying and harassment?

An NYC Open Data Week Event, organized by The GovLab and Reboot, with support from Reaktor.

Open data – when matched with real demands in society – has huge potential for improving people’s lives. Yet, despite the progress made in unlocking city data, much of the potential of open data remains untapped.

“If You Build It, Will They Come?” will be a unique conversation seeking to move beyond today’s dominant approach to Open Data which is mostly supply driven. How can we become more sophisticated about the actual and potential demand for data? How to identify and segment current and future users? What questions, when matched with data, could provide high impact? How to connect the data science expertise available in New York City with those constituencies that could benefit from greater insight from open data but lack the capacity?

A distinguished panel representing several disciplines, successful data initiatives and high impact sectors will reflect on how to identify demand for open data toward:

• Improving Governance
• Empowering Individuals
• Economic Opportunity
• Solving Public Problems

Through conversation and dialogue “If You Build It, Will They Come?” will focus on:

• Nurturing a Demand Driven Mindset -- Focusing on the users NOT the information product;
• Learning From our Peers -- Exploring methods other organizations have used to take a demand-driven approach to the generation and consumption of information goods;
• Identifying Who Will and Can Benefit -- Mapping current and potential open data user segments;
• Spotting High Impact Partnerships -- High capacity suppliers + high impact use cases = a good investment;
• Making It Happen -- Mapping next steps to make open data more demand driven.

Welcome to our beautiful office space above the roofs of the Flatiron District. Food and drinks will be provided, and interesting conversations expected. Looking forward to seeing you!

Many US cities offer comprehensive open data portals, with APIs that provide information on various types of government activities. Making municipal data publicly available makes local governments more accessible and accountable to the communities they serve. It also increases opportunities for the public to interact with public agencies. And given the right tools to mine and analyze this data, businesses and regular citizens just might develop new and innovative products and apps that take full advantage of the data provided.

In this session, we'll take look at a few of the public data sets provided by the City of New York, which can be accessed via:

https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/

We will show how anyone can use Cloud-based Low Code tools, like Oracle Application Express (APEX) to easily build powerful reporting and data analysis tools that tap into data like municipal expenditures, 311 service requests, demographic and education data.

NOTE: This presentation is part of the free Oracle Code conference, which requires advanced registration online (no on-site registration).

In cities made of brick and mortar, steel and concrete - digital technologies represent an added layer of information that brings meaning to the everyday, human dimension of cities. As local governments have started to implement these technologies and realized the value to be unlocked by sharing this information, they have been opening up their datasets and creating platforms, enabling others to be able to share theirs as well.

Currently hundreds of services are relying on this open data to operate within cities. Yet, what is the impact on the citizens and workers of NYC? How do we correlate the value of a dataset with the value for someone walking to their next meeting or someone fixing the side of a road? Too much time is spent on the instrumentation aspect of open data and not enough on the desired impact.

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Calling all high school youth who want to make a difference in NYC communities! The NYC Youth Leadership Council initiative is hosting a workshop on NYC's Open Data platform on March 7th from 5-7pm, and we'd love to have you there.

What is NYC Open Data? It's a FREE online resource for anyone in NYC to search for data and facts across NYC. You get access to data that can tell you more about where you live, go to school, eat, shop, and hang out - and it's information you can access on your smartphone, tablet, or computer.

"But how do I use data?" We'll teach you! The workshop will show you around the platform (and you'll get to meet super cool people from the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics and hear about their jobs), and we'll also work with you to get into the platform and search issues that are important to you.

It's basically the perfect tool to use when you are investigating the issues you care about around your neighbohood, school, and NYC.

Refreshments will be provided. This event is open to all NYC high school youth, and members of NYC Youth Leadership Councils are highly encouraged to attend.

As the result of a three year partnership with the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, BetaNYC has designed tools and customized trainings specifically intended to help Community Boards access, analyze, map and use data to inform decision-making. This workshop will introduce an easy-to-use BoardStat tool to query NYC 311 - service requests and explore trends in health, safety and quality of life concerns. Additional key datasets / tools will also be reviewed. Come ready to learn and get right into datasets and graphs.

Bring a laptop and be prepared to learn how to easily make 311 part of your workflow!

BoardStat is designed for community boards by community boards. Not only does BoardStat empower a community board staff and its members to gain timely insights, it is furthering the Manhattan Borough President's long-standing goal of making government transparent and responsive, reactive, and moving beyond open data access to meaningful use.

This training and BoardStat are open to the general public. Join us to learn how NYC’s open data can make you a better informed neighbor.

Things to bring: a laptop, power supply, and be prepared to participate. Note, most of the websites won’t work on tablets or phones with iOS or Android operating systems. This means, iPads and Android tablets won’t work as well. We recommend a laptop with Windows, Mac OS, Chromebooks, or Unix running a modern browser like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Safari.

Partners
+ Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer
+ NYC Open Data team
+ BetaNYC

The mission of Our Stories: The Soul of Data and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to create public awareness of education conditions of foster youth in the NYC Metro Area. Through various art mediums, students will integrate arts and open data to uplift the voices of foster youth across the NYC metro area.

The Open Contracting Data Treasure Hunt will allow New Yorkers to investigate what data is available around public procurement in NYC, and to find innovative ways to address particular problems. We will have some fun while trying to use fiscal data to understand the use of public resources, and then use the experience to reflect on data gaps and potential next steps. The exercise and reflection will also serve as a network-building opportunity, ideally beginning conversations around data availability and use (or lack thereof - and how to improve this) among interested citizens.

Participants will receive some general information about fiscal data available in NYC, they will be split into groups, and then they will have a role play game in which they will be challenged to try to use the data to understand the use of public resources - for example in education and for buying medicines and supplies. The point is to try to use the data and see what we can come up with and what reflections we can get from the process!

We're excited to go on a Treasure Hunt with you all!

Data Through Design is an art exhibit showcasing works based on open data under the theme 8 Questions for the City. The mission of Data through Design and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to encourage a wider knowledge of New York City’s open datasets and how these resources can enable better public understanding of life in the city. Collectively, these works reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data. The exhibition is co-organized by the Pratt SAVI, CARTO, Enigma, and will be hosted at the Made in NY Media Center.

No registration necessary.

Data Through Design is an art exhibit showcasing works based on open data under the theme 8 Questions for the City. The mission of Data through Design and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to encourage a wider knowledge of New York City’s open datasets and how these resources can enable better public understanding of life in the city. Collectively, these works reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data. The exhibition is co-organized by the Pratt SAVI, CARTO, Enigma, and will be hosted at the Made in NY Media Center.

No registration necessary.

Data Through Design is an art exhibit showcasing works based on open data under the theme 8 Questions for the City. The mission of Data through Design and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to encourage a wider knowledge of New York City’s open datasets and how these resources can enable better public understanding of life in the city. Collectively, these works reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data. The exhibition is co-organized by the Pratt SAVI, CARTO, Enigma, and will be hosted at the Made in NY Media Center.

No registration necessary.

Due to the severe winter storm the Made in NY Media Center will be closing early at 3pm.

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Data Through Design is an art exhibit showcasing works based on open data under the theme 8 Questions for the City. The mission of Data through Design and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to encourage a wider knowledge of New York City’s open datasets and how these resources can enable better public understanding of life in the city. Collectively, these works reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data. The exhibition is co-organized by the Pratt SAVI, CARTO, Enigma, and will be hosted at the Made in NY Media Center.

No registration necessary.

Data Through Design is an art exhibit showcasing works based on open data under the theme 8 Questions for the City. The mission of Data through Design and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to encourage a wider knowledge of New York City’s open datasets and how these resources can enable better public understanding of life in the city. Collectively, these works reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data. The exhibition is co-organized by the Pratt SAVI, CARTO, Enigma, and will be hosted at the Made in NY Media Center.

No registration necessary.

Data Through Design is an art exhibit showcasing works based on open data under the theme 8 Questions for the City. The mission of Data through Design and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to encourage a wider knowledge of New York City’s open datasets and how these resources can enable better public understanding of life in the city. Collectively, these works reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data. The exhibition is co-organized by the Pratt SAVI, CARTO, Enigma, and will be hosted at the Made in NY Media Center.

No registration necessary.

Data Through Design is an art exhibit showcasing works based on open data under the theme 8 Questions for the City. The mission of Data through Design and Open Data Week, a city-wide endeavor by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, is to encourage a wider knowledge of New York City’s open datasets and how these resources can enable better public understanding of life in the city. Collectively, these works reveal insights from a cumulative whole and what stories can emerge from data. The exhibition is co-organized by the Pratt SAVI, CARTO, Enigma, and will be hosted at the Made in NY Media Center.

No registration necessary.

Learn about NYC Planning's geolocation toolkit, including five tools that leverage City Planning's address database. This lunchtime discussion will explain how this address database is maintained and the importance of keeping an authortative geocoder for New York City addresses.

Due to the snowstorm this event is rescheduled for Wednesday March 28th. Email JPichot@planning.nyc.gov with any questions.

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Join NYC Planning as we explore the role of product management in building sustainable, impactful digital products within government.

Calling all civic change makers, techies, data enthusiasts and everyone in between! Celebrate all that you’ve learned during Open Data Week by closing out with the ODW Happy Hour in Gowanus, Brooklyn on Friday, March 9th. From 5:30pm onwards we’ll be playing games, sharing tales of open data adventures- all while enjoying (free) food, beverages and slow jams. This is the chance to reconnect with anyone you may have met for a brief second throughout the week, and meet new faces you may have missed along the way. Open to all participants of Open Data Week and your friends, this happy hour will highlight key voices in the community, with brief remarks from Zack Brisson, Principal of Reboot; Adrienne Schmoeker, Director of Civic Engagement & Strategy for the City of New York; and Carey Klutz, Senior Program Manager for the Open Contracting Partnership. We look forward to meeting you all and wrapping up Open Data Week together! #DataPartyTime

Please note, we’re a dog friendly party, feel free to bring your lovely pup if you would like.

Insights for ArcGIS is a web-based data analytics workbench where you can explore spatial and non-spatial data, answer questions you didn't know to ask, and quickly deliver powerful results. Use maps, charts, and tables to visualize data, apply advanced spatial analysis with a simple drag-and-drop, and begin telling your story like never before.

If you're interested in learning more about Insights for ArcGIS, join us for a free hands-on workshop at Civic Hall. Attendees will learn more about the capabilities of Insights for ArcGIS, see demonstrations and scenarios of use cases, and do a self-paced lesson to experience Insights for ArcGIS for themselves.To help celebrate NYC Open Data Week, this workshop will show examples of data visualizaiton and spatial analysis tools applied to data from the NYC Open Data site.

Attendees will need to bring a laptop or tablet in order to fully participate. Access to Insights for ArcGIS will be provided.

C4Q is excited to be sponsored by Flatiron Health, and partner with Robin Hood and Blue Ridge Labs for the Access Code 4.0 Hackathon. Over the next two days, Access Code Fellows will build amazing apps that help increase individuals’ access to community services via technology. Focusing on services in education, emergency, money, and work, the Fellows will utilize their technical and creative skills to build products that integrate software from NYC Open Data and supporting APIs. The hackathon is a great opportunity for ideation, innovation, and collaboration.

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, the founder of Data & Society, and a Visiting Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Vulnerabilities in a Sociotechnical Society

Data-driven and algorithmic systems increasingly underpin many decision-making systems, shaping where law enforcement are stationed and what news you are shown on social media. The design of these systems is inscribed with organizational and cultural values. Often, these systems depend on the behavior of everyday people, who may not act as expected. Meanwhile, adversarial actors also seek to manipulate the data upon which these systems are built for personal, political, and economic reasons. In this talk, danah will unpack some of the unique cultural challenges presented by “big data” and machine learning, raising critical questions about fairness and accountability. She will describe how those who are manipulating media for lulz are discovering the attack surfaces of new technical systems and how their exploits may undermine many aspects of society that we hold dear. Above all, she will argue that we need to develop more sophisticated ways of thinking about technology before jumping to hype and fear.

Webinar option is available. Register is required: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aZ0Fsc4URGSHcM3-NPq7Xw.