BetaNYC’s 1st class photo by Daniel Wilson. What an amazing weekend! On friday, TechPresident wrote about digital engagement starting to be the new normal in NY City Council and City Hall. Just one day later, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Council member Ben Kallos, Council member Mark Levine, five representatives from Community Boards, NYC DoITT, and […]
Date: Monday, 23 Feb 2014 From: Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC To: NY City Council joint hearing on Mayor’s Vision Zero report. Subject: In support of the Mayor’s Vision Zero report, particularly tools for data and engagement to empower local decision making capabilities. Dear Chairs, Good morning Transportation and Public Safety Committees. It is […]
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 […]
Over the last year, we started hosting hacknights to empower the civic hacker community. In that time, we heard quite a bit of feedback from developers on demystifying datasets and government practice. Yet, we struggled to find the right away to connect developers, designers, and data scientist to each other. After some feedback, we are […]
This is to a collection of official NYC maps. These maps are created by the NYC’s City-wide GIS department. They have a blog, a user guide, and a “Missing Manual.” All of these maps grow from a central map, NYC Map. In general, these maps are updated frequently and the base tool is under constant […]
QUICK RECAP: For the next seven weeks, BetaNYC is exploring how to build tools for City Council, their staff, and Community Boards. This is us doubling down on our open data and open government advocacy, while educating a new crop of elected officials and their staff. BetaNYC’s #BeyondTransparency will culminate in Code Across NYC, a […]
Testimony to the Transportation Committee in support of Intro No 1114-A, 4 December 2013 It is a great honor to address you and represent New York City’s technology community, in particular, civic technologists and civic hackers, a rather active group of technologists. I am Noel Hidalgo, co-founder of BetaNYC. We’re the New York City Code for […]
