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Civic tech contestants range from Microsoft to M.T.A. and housing | Capital New York
Civic tech contestants range from Microsoft to M.T.A. and housing | Capital New York Miranda Neubauer proves a great recap on last week’s #CodeAcross NYC!!! Civic Technology group BetaNYC was lead organizer of the New York event at Civic Hall in Flatiron to encourage civic technologists to engage with city open data and build tools…
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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 of data from a variety…
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BetaNYC’s NYC 311 Oversight hearing testimony – Google Docs
BetaNYC’s NYC 311 Oversight hearing testimony – Google Docs Today, we are in front of the New York City Council’s Technology. You can watch the hearing via the City Council’s web stream (14th floor hearing room) or an archived video here.
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“We The People for NYC” is coming | Participatory Politics Foundation
“We The People for NYC” is coming | Participatory Politics Foundation NYT reported that NYC Council Member James Vacca will introduce legislation to develop online petitions to NYC city council – in short, a version of the White House’s “We the People” for NYC municipal government.
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Canarsie Tops List of Most Flooded Neighborhoods According to ClaimStat Data
Canarsie Tops List of Most Flooded Neighborhoods According to ClaimStat Data iquantny: In a quest to do for claims against the city what Crime Stat did for crime, Scott Stringer recently released ClaimStat. It maps out claims against the city, including the date of occurrence, type of claim, location and amount paid out in the claim.…
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Ariel Kennan on innovation within government
Ariel Kennan on innovation within government Government is full of people who are incredibly well intentioned and who want to improve our cities. But sometimes I think public servants get held back by the larger systems of government, like procurement, human resources, and technology delivery. I’m really interested in how to bring new skills to…
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De Blasio hits reset on 911 system overhaul, consolidates project management, reduces consultants – NY Daily News
De Blasio hits reset on 911 system overhaul, consolidates project management, reduces consultants – NY Daily News Let’s hope the City starts to push this type of tech/product manger leadership across the board! Maybe those product managers can form a little tech innovation leadership committee… “At every level we found issues that needed to be…
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Visualizing a Day in the Life of a New York City Cab
Visualizing a Day in the Life of a New York City Cab This week, Chris Whong, a self-professed “urbanist, mapmaker, data junkie” in Brooklyn, put out one of the more thrilling data projects we’ve seen recently. It was a visualization of the day in the life of a New York City taxi, and each time…
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Mash Up Minneapolis and New York City Restaurant Inspection Data
Mash Up Minneapolis and New York City Restaurant Inspection Data Mash Up Minneapolis and New York City Restaurant Inspection DataOpen
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Scraping Day Care Data in the Naked City | Marc Shifflett
Scraping Day Care Data in the Naked City | Marc Shifflett This is a great recap of a community itch being scratched by Beta NYC. Thanks for the write up Marc Shifflett! “As it happened one day, Anita Schmid, a physicist turned data scientist and mother of a small child, motivated by the lack of useful and…
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Contemplating the Mosaic Effect of Free Taxi Information
Contemplating the Mosaic Effect of Free Taxi Information This is a good extension of the ongoing conversation around NYC Taxi data, data hashing, and what it might mean for future data release.
