Launching talk.beta.nyc, NYC’s online home to #civictech, #opendata, & #opengov!
LET US TALK! Talk.Beta.NYC is NYC’s online home for civic technology, open data, and open government! About talk.beta.nyc “TALK” is a collection of communities who are fighting for a 21st century city. Built on the open source Discourse.org platform and customized by Volkan Unsal and Ontodia, TALK.beta.NYC is NYC’s one…
An exclusive look into AirBnB’s NYC rental data.
If you’ve been following the discussion around AirBnB, many see it as a platform for illegal hotels. Absent from the conversation has been raw data around who is sharing their home, apartment, or who is acting as a broker for a number of units. Here is your opportunity to draw…
Announcing #CodeAcross NYC, NYC’s #OpenData festival
Join us Feb 21st & 22nd as we celebrate the #1 open data city in America! #CodeAcross NYC is a two day festival of, or related to, liberating government data. We are bringing together government, community based organizations, innovators, academics, and individuals to create effective uses of NYC’s data. CodeAcross…
How to Query NYC Open Datasets With Socrata
How to Query NYC Open Datasets With Socrata flatironschool: The following is a guest post by Stephen Chen and originally appeared on his blog. Stephen is currently a student a The Flatiron School. You can learn more about him here, or follow him on twitter here. NYC provides a ton…
#GivingTuesday, Join BetaNYC & march into the future, together.
BetaNYC is New York City’s civic tech and open government community. In past year, we’ve hosted 54 events demystifying open data and government, worked with transportation advocates to improve NYPD’s crash data, we’ve gotten the City Council to adopt 21st century rules, and worked with the Council and the Mayor…