Call for Community Board Data Success Stories and Data Needs Use Cases
At BetaNYC, for the past two months, we have been collaborating with the Manhattan Borough President’s Office to conduct research to better understand the information infrastructure that supports community boards in producing recommendations to the city. We have been documenting the existing information workflows within community boards, while also highlighting…
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 city entity comprehensively tracking the location or status of vacant storefronts across the city, we are attempting to reverse engineer this data by mapping where there are commercial units in…
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 has since grown to be a non-profit organization that hosts events, facilitates policy change, demystifies big ideas, and empowers a new generation of civic hackers. In a strategic partnership with…