Announcing NYC 311 Data Jam – NYC’s National Day of Civic Hacking event

On September 7, 2017, Posted by , In Blog,CfA Brigade,Education,Events,NYC TreesCount! Data Jam,Open Data for All, By ,, , With No Comments

Join us on Saturday, 23 September, for a day dedicated to improving the people’s dataset! For 2017’s National Day of Civic Hacking, we ask you to roll up your sleeves and data jam with us. Last year, we worked with NYC Parks to improve their TreesCount! Census data. This year, we will shine…

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The Message – 2016.09 – Affordable housing: data, policy, people; open data hearing; geo data standards.

On September 8, 2016, Posted by , In Blog,Newsletter, By ,,,,, , With No Comments

#BetaTALK – Affordable Housing: Data, Policy, People   BetaNYC hosted a lunchtime #BetaTALK discussion at Civic Hall on July 8th, centered on the topic of affordable housing in New York City,  The motivation for the event was to share knowledge about this extremely important and complex topic, to stimulate more…

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Today, we launch www.citygram.nyc — subscribe to NYC #OpenData subjects & locations.

On October 27, 2014, Posted by , In Blog, By ,,,,,,, , With No Comments

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Citygram.NYC, a notification platform that works with New York City’s Open Data. Citygram allows you to subscribe to events in Open Data sets that happen near you. You can choose to receive daily SMS updates, or a weekly email digest.   We are…

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