Gov. Andrew Cuomo is planning to dramatically expand a program that embeds appointees among the executive chamber and into state agencies to work on his priority projects and help form state policy. Cuomo looks to expand fellows program – Times Union
Code Across NYC 2014 is next weekend!
Join us on 22 Feb for #CodeAcrossNYC 2014. This is a two day prototype-athon taking NYC’s open government data and making it useful for NY City Council, their staff, and NYC’s Community Boards. In partnership with the Manhattan Borough President’s office, several City Council members and Community Boards, now is the time to make NYC’s […]
A special message from NYC BigApps 2014! Register to be a mentor.
NYC BigApps launched in 2009 with a mission to open City data to the public. The competition is now the premier civic technology initiative of the City of New York. We pose a single question to our hundreds of annual participants: can you make NYC better with technology? BECOME A BIGAPPS MENTORFrom March to June, […]
Council members Brad Lander and Ben Kallos, along with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, are the first New York elected officials to sign up for a new online platform that allows the public to directly ask questions of elected officials. The new site, called AskThem.io, is based on the White House’s “We the People” campaign, […]
Almost a fifth of NYC’s officially published collision data is ambiguous or wrong
Almost a fifth of NYC’s officially published collision data is ambiguous or wrong “The success rate was much less than the combined ArcGIS/Google approach: almost 18% of the intersections could not be associated with lon/lats. However, the Geoclient’s error messages are great. Instead of pulling the wrong lon/lat or nothing at all, it identifies exactly […]