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! […]
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 […]
BetaTalk: Meet Code for America’s fellowship team & former fellows
BetaTalk: Meet Code for America’s fellowship team & former fellows About the BetaTalk Since 2010, Code for America has been asking technologist and designers “what can you do for your […]
Innovating Gotham: Lara Torvi & Modernizing Government Technology
Innovating Gotham: Lara Torvi & Modernizing Government Technology Q: Why do you work in government? A: I’m fascinated by the intersection of technology and public service. There are so many […]
FOILing NYC’s Taxi Trip Data – with Torrents
FOILing NYC’s Taxi Trip Data – with Torrents Are you looking for NYC’s TLC Taxi data? You are not alone. A few months ago, Chris Whong FOIL’ed NYC’s TLC 2013 […]
For New York City’s Tech Industry, Is There Life After Bloomberg? | Fast Company
For New York City’s Tech Industry, Is There Life After Bloomberg? | Fast Company
CitiBike NYC Trip History Data
CitiBike NYC Trip History Data We are very proud to support the opening of @CitiBikeNYC trip history data.
Upcoming Hackathon: 3 Day Startup Bronx
Upcoming Hackathon: 3 Day Startup Bronx From our friends at the Concourse Fund: Join 3 Day Startup in the Bronx as an entrepreneur with a new idea, a team member, […]
Almost a fifth of NYC’s officially published collision data is ambiguous or wrong
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 […]
#Reinvent311 Mobile Content Challenge
#Reinvent311 Mobile Content Challenge nycopendata: In a City where 70% of 311 calls are resolved simply by providing information, the #Reinvent311 challenge asked civic technologists to develop mobile tools to […]