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Call for Community Board Data Success Stories and Data Needs Use Cases
We are conducting research to better understand the information infrastructure that supports community boards and are producing recommendations on…
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Scraping Data about Manhattan’s Licensed Beauty Salons and Barbershops
At BetaNYC, we have been working on a tool to map vacant storefronts in Manhattan. Since there is currently no…
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Testimony to the New York City Council on Int. No. 14 of 2018 and Publication of Online Reports — BetaNYC & Reinvent Albany
Testimony to the New York City Council Governmental Operations Committee on the Publication of Online Reports and the Broadcasting of…
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BetaNYC’s Testimony to NYC Council’s Technology Committee — Oversight Hearing on LinkNYC
To: NYC Council – Committee on Technology From: Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC Re: Link NYC Oversight Hearing Wednesday,…
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How we build is as important as what we build. – Chris Whong, NYC Planning Labs Thank you for making…
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Register for 2018’s NYC School of Data & #HackHall
Join us on Saturday, 3 March 2018, for NYC School of Data — a community technology conference that demystifies complex…
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Dear de Blasio, Re: NYC Automated Decision Systems Task Force — #NYCAlgorithms
For the past year, BetaNYC has called on NYC government to be a global leader on algorithmic government. In the…
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WE’RE HIRING – Civic Innovation Lab Manager
BetaNYC is New York City’s civic technology, open data, and civic design community. Starting as a meetup in 2009, it…
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Testimony on Open Data Examination and Verification Report 2017
Good Afternoon, Chairman Vacca and Members of the Technology Committee, I am Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC and a…
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CIF 2017 Field Report – First lab experience
(This week’s blog post is written by Federico Toscano and edited by Ramesh Beharry.) Introduction the first week’s lab: Last week, the…