THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDUELD TO MONDAY, MARCH 25TH AT 12:30-2:30PM.

From the event organizers: "All classes and activities have been cancelled at Pratt Institute for 03/04, including our workshop. We are considering rescheduling for another date and will be in touch with more information if we do."

Data literacy is a critical aspect of citizenship in the 21st century and today’s young people will contribute to future conversations about the role of data in their communities and in society. How can libraries, schools, and community-based organizations put teens on a pathway toward critical, civic participation in a data driven society? This workshop will explore strategies for planning engaging, meaningful, entry- level data activities for teens, using data sets from civic data repositories. Participants will learn about data literacy initiatives in public libraries and will participate in a hands- on experience with open data. The workshop will be of interest to people who work with teens in libraries, schools, and community-based programs.

NYC continues to be a leader in the open data movement, providing access to vast amounts of administrative data. However, access doesn’t always equate to utility for the general public. In order for community organizations to turn data into action, someone needs to tackle the vital stages of data cleaning, processing, and analyzing that pave the way for meaningful insights. Through the lens of an interactive tool that reimagines NYC neighborhood boundaries based on user-selected inputs from open data, Two Sigma Data Clinic will demonstrate the power of open data when transformed into user-friendly, informative resources, and the role that corporate data philanthropy initiatives can play in bridging the divide between open data and actionable insights. By combining multiple NYC open data sources together, our web-based prototype generates localized features and uses machine learning clustering models based on the user’s interests to redefine the shape of NYC neighborhoods. In these visualizations, the Bed-Stuys, Astorias and Upper East Sides we’ve come to know over the years may look strikingly different based on the selected characteristics. The ultimate goal is to allow users to upload additional data - either open or their own - into the model to understand their communities through relevant, meaningful perspectives.

The day long LYLAS Labs Hackathon on Environmental Justice will bring together citizens of NYC, its business community, and its open data in order to advance environmental protections for NYC.

NYC Youth Leadership Councils (YLCs), in partnership with The Mayor's Office for Data Analytics (MODA), will be hosting a free interactive workshop for high school students on the NYC Open Data platform as part of NYC Open Data Week 2019. NYC Open Data is the City’s free public data program - providing access to more than 2,000 datasets published by various City agencies. As part of an initiative to improve the accessibility, transparency, and accountability of City government, the Open Data platform makes the wealth of public data generated by various New York City agencies and other City organizations available for public use. During our March 5th workshop, you'll have the chance to explore the NYC Open Data platform and all that it offers, learn more about real-world applications of public data, and begin developing your own community-improvement project that harnesses the power of Open Data! You'll also get to meet and network with staff members from NYC Service and MODA. This event is open to all NYC high school students, and YLC members are highly encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be provided. Please be sure to bring a valid ID (e.g. student ID, IDNYC, driver's license, etc.). If you are registering on behalf of multiple people, please email Tyler Rivera with a list of participants (first name, last name, school, YLC, and email) at trivera@vista.nyc.gov.

University Showcase of Fun and Useful Tools Built Using NYC Open Data - In this workshop, Queens College and CUNY students will present interactive tools they create on the CrossCompute platform and demonstrate visual thinking and problem solving capabilities of using NYC Open Data. Our goal is to demonstrate the potential use of NYC Open Data to tell stories about NYC and create tools for decision-makers in business, agency or civil service non-for-profit organizations, NYC residents, and the general public.

We explore the history and present day functions of surveillance in our society. With new and emerging technologies being utilized to collect information about all of us at an ever-increasing pace, do we know the extent to which our movements, decisions and feelings are being captured and studied? This is the first of a 3 part series, where we'll explore the technology behind new methods of surveillance, its uses locally and globally, and where it all might be heading next.

Did you know that NYC makes information about your neighborhoods and parks available through the Open Data initiative? Open Data empowers New Yorkers to better understand how our City works. Come to this workshop to learn how you can access and use this data to support your local park! Hear from NYC Parks' in house data experts on how you can dive into the data about park inspections, capital renovations, programming, and more.

Update: the event is rescheduled from 03/04 to 3/21 from 1pm-3pm.

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Learn about the City of New York’s use of municipal bonds to finance public projects across the city, such as roads, schools and city hospitals. Hear how publicly available municipal market data helps the City and its bondholders make more informed decisions. Participate in an interactive training on using the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) website to locate the financial, operating and demographic data that the City must disclose to their bondholders and the public. Discuss how the EMMA website can evolve to better serve the information needs of City leaders, bondholders and residents.

Data Through Design is an annual exhibition celebrating creative tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City's Open Data. DTD 2019 includes an opening event on March 1st, scheduled exhibit visits through March 11th, and a closing panel on March 11th. The exhibit enables curious makers such as technologists, artists, and designers to create novel methods of data representation, present new narrative perspectives, and develop a deeper understanding of life in the city using data as a medium. In computing, NaN, standing for not a number, is a numeric data type value representing an undefined or unrepresentable value. Our theme this year is “Not a Number” to speak to the ways in which space and place are being transformed and shaped by numbers meant to represent (sometimes unrepresentable) complexity in the everyday. We ask our artists to reflect on the stories within our city’s open data that speak to the undefined or unrepresentable value of the things that the data may be hiding. Exhibiting artists include: Crystal Penalosa & Melissa De La Cruz, Karl Munstedt, Itay Niv, Ana Mengote, Eric Forman, Mollie Ruskin & Xena Ni, Achim Koh & Wonyoung So, Stephanie Luu & Andrew Lin, and Nicolas Grefenstette & Pierre Depaz.

Citizens’ Committee for Children produces Keeping Track Online (KTO), a comprehensive database on child well-being in New York City. The data and statistics in KTO draw directly from information gathered from a variety of sources – including more than 10 NYC Open Data sets, NY State Open Data, the American Community Survey, as well as city, state, and federal agencies. As part of Open Data Week 2019, CCC is hosting an opportunity for educators to approach KTO as a tool to enhance their teaching on community needs and assets around the city. Participants will interact with research tools that they can use to map the characteristics and composition of their neighborhoods, explore how various risk factors intersect and produce vastly different outcomes for children born in one neighborhood versus another, and discuss possibilities to engage community members to address needs and advocacy efforts. This workshop is well suited for those who wish to learn about using research and data tools to engage youth and children, and how both qualitative and quantitative information can garner attention and resources for underserved communities.

Governments everywhere face a skills gap. The opportunity offered by modern data analytics is growing faster than governments can train their personnel on these powerful methods. The White House, Congress, and many others have recognized addressing this skills gap as a critical step to increasing the prevalence and quality of data-driven decision making in government. The Administrative Data Research Facility was formed to provide a secure environment for interlinking confidential federal, state, local, and other data. But providing the tools has never been enough – we also invest heavily in upskilling government officials’ skills so they can take advantage of new methods and tools. The training programs explore domain specific questions using real-world, confidential datasets on individuals. The trainings have been delivered to over 270 government staff and researchers. The initial focus of the trainings was the link between the labor market and Criminal Justice and high need populations. That focus was expanded to include education and labor market links in subsequent classes. We would like your input about the next foci. This event will provide a demonstration of the ADRF’s approach, tools, and existing projects followed by an interactive session soliciting attendees’ ideas on which domains are ripe for data explorations next.

Researchers and analysts who want to use data for evidence and policy cannot easily find out who else worked with the data, on what topics and with what results. As a result, good research is underused, great data go undiscovered and are undervalued, and time and resources are wasted redoing empirical work. - Our vision is to build an Amazon.com for data. We invited data science teams to compete against each other to develop an algorithm capable of detecting mentions of datasets in publication text and associate further information with these mentions. We are now challenging the data science community to validate the results of the competition. - The interactive presentation will demo the results and ask the audience to provide feedback. Presenter: Julia Ingrid Lane, Professor at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, runs the Administrative Data Research Facility, where she pushes the boundaries of cutting-edge data science for the benefit of governments and researchers everywhere.

Join us for our first-ever DATA2GOHEALTH Scavenger Hunt, part of NYC's Open Data Week 2019! You'll use a fun and interactive data tool (DATA2GOHEALTH.NYC) to find nearby locations that match the clues, and submit photo proof via Twitter. The winner will be announced at a networking happy hour at the end, and the prize will be a donation to a non-profit of your choice, along with bragging rights. Participants must register, and the event can be completed as an individual or a team, though teams are encouraged! You can come as a team or join one when you arrive. Meet at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial statue in Cadman Plaza, where introductions and orientation will begin at 3pm. You'll receive everything you need, but at least one person on each team will need a mobile device that can access the internet well outdoors and a twitter account. You will be walking around outdoors in the surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods for up to 2 hours, plan and dress accordingly! As teams finish (or by 5pm), we will convene at a local bar/restaurant for a networking happy hour where we'll announce the winner. The happy hour is optional, you can win even if you're not present, but it's highly recommended!

Your city has an open data law. See https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/open-data-law/ But the truth is without your involvement, the open data laws will not be followed. Please come out and participate in your government. Open data means government must be transparent. We will discuss the current state of open data and transparency in our government and what everyone can do to make things better. We will discuss property taxes and how that affects the small homeowners in Bed Stuy and throughout the city. Did you know that the New York City Budget (> $100 Billion) details and the New York City Education Budget (> $32 Billion) details ARE NOT in the open data website? See https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/ Bring your own topics.

MapPLUTO is the go-to dataset for information about New York City's 860,000+ tax lots. Join us for a user design workshop to reenvision MapPLUTO and help us improve the dataset to make it easier for you to use.

Join us for a user design workshop to reenvision MapPLUTO to better serve city agency operations and analyses. We'll build out a portfolio of city agencies' current and potential use cases for MapPLUTO and start to prioritize improvements.

Join Datavized Technologies in a half-day, hands-on workshop to learn how to use NYC Open Data with Datavized software tools ‘Geometric’, to turn data into 3D immersive visualizations in virtual reality, and ‘TwoTone’, to turn data into music. Easily build and share immersive 3D virtual reality experiences in minutes without coding using Geometric. Participants will use the Geometric dashboard tool and learn the fundamentals of immersive data visualization, how to prepare and clean location data sets, import and map geospatial data to a 3D globe for a 360° view of trends and insights, and customize a 3D project for presentation on the web and in virtual reality and mixed reality headsets. Datavized, with the support of Google News Initiative, has developed TwoTone, a new free and open-source web-based tool for turning data into music. Learn how to import an Excel or CSV data set and sonify the data, as a way to understand the data by hearing, or simply as a way to use data to make music for creative projects. Participants will learn how to use both data tools with NYC Open Data and create and share their projects online. Datavized will show examples of projects made with the tools using data from the NYC Open Data portal and several other open data sites, including examples from City data partners. Everyone will have access to the free tools and tutorials online. Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop, tablet, and/or smartphone in order to fully participate.

In this workshop, participants will learn how to take to the streets armed with a mobile phone and collect data that will complement existing open data to build a story about the soil and air in our communities. We can use the information we collect to ask questions that will propel ideas, solutions and the implementation of these solutions. The workshop will cover the basics of web form design for data collection as well as techniques for interacting with data on a mobile device. Participants will use their phones heavily, so please bring a charging cord. This is the first workshop in the USI Workshop Series 2019 following the 2018 Symposium on urban soils: remediation, restoration, rehabilitation, regeneration, recovery, resilience, renew, re-learn, respect. As the USI begins to build the Data Depository and Exchange, we believe that it is important to understand the data needs of the communities of this city. This workshop will also provide USI with community feedback on how best to collect useable, useful data that can help answer questions, and implement solutions.

Join us on Saturday, 2 March 2019, for NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around civic data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference kicks off NYC’s annual Open Data Week and features OVER 24 sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community for YOU! Our conversations and workshops will feed your mind and empower you to improve your neighborhood.

Imagine that you are creating an interactive tool where you can find all of a certain type of building in New York City. Maybe you’re creating a tool for tourists to find public restrooms, or for people with disabilities to check if elevators are working at their destination before they leave home. What data elements would you need to include in each building profile? Where would you get the data behind those elements?

Come to this workshop and we’ll work through these questions together. Bring your knowledge of other public data sources. Representatives from the NYC Department of Buildings, NYC Department of City Planning, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications will be on hand to answer questions about city data.

The need to steer the process of using public and private data ethically, responsibly, and manage the insights it can generate as we tackle some of society’s biggest challenges, demands a new role which suits to purpose: Data Stewards.

Join New Lab to celebrate the first year of The Circular City program! The evening will include the unveiling of new research, interactive demonstrations of startup products, a special exhibit of artists using data to depict life in New York City, and insights from the public and private stakeholders who are helping to define the future of urban tech and cities.

This workshop is a beginner workshop for anyone who would like to get to know the City of New York's open data better and to use it to create actionable insight through mapping. During the first half of the workshop, a representative from the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics will provide an overview of the Open Data Portal and give participants the opportunity to learn more about open data. During the second half of our time together, the workshop leader will guide participants in selecting a question to investigate and dataset to map. Please bring a laptop or tablet to work from.

This year’s theme is “our problems, our solutions, our unicorns. As you all know, we take a problem-focused approach to entrepreneurship. That’s very different than Silicon Valley’s approach (we don’t make tech for the sake of tech). NYC’s problems are the world’s problems because of our diverse population. So how can we make sure that the NYC community (and the communities within the city) take ownership of their problems. We just might create unicorns (a startup with 1B valuation).

This panel will bring together data storytellers, artists, and activists to discuss how innovative storytelling methods can translate the billions of rows that make up NYC public data into a more inclusive, accountable, and open city government.

Reboot is excited to host the 2019 NYC Open Data Week Closing Reception! Come and celebrate the end of another successful Open Data Week with attendees, organizers, and data enthusiasts alike. This is the chance to network, make new connections, and share what you've learned -- all while enjoying food, beverages, and great tunes!

Speakers will be given up to five minutes apiece to describe their experiences using spatial data on the Portal, and to suggests improvements and enhancements.

Join us for an open discussion on data - best practices, challenges, favorite tools, and innovations - for BIDs and other neighborhood organizations. The roundtable will be moderated to focus on practical, day-to-day tasks and projects. When registering, you will be able to vote on the roundtable topics that interest you.

Care to join us for lunch? Microsoft and DataKind would like to invite you to Machine Eatable, a lunchtime data science discussion at Civic Hall. This monthly lunch-and-learn series offers a candid conversation led by a practicing data scientist around the latest happenings on the front lines of data science for social good. Our lunch on Wednesday, March 6, will be a special celebration of NYC Open Data Week, in which we'll be discussing two exciting collaborations between Microsoft and DataKind: Vision Zero and Foster Care. RSVPs are required, so that we can provide a light lunch. If you can't make it in person, you can still follow the conversation using #MachineEatable. Please also feel free to share this invitation with your networks on social media. We hope to see you there!

NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) will host a panel discussion focused on the Speculation Watch List, which was published as open data in November 2018. The Speculation Watch List identifies recently sold rent-regulated multifamily buildings that may be involved in predatory real estate transactions. The list measures the potential for speculation by computing a property’s capitalization rate. HPD places properties sold with capitalization rates below their borough’s median on the Speculation Watch List. The list can be used as a resource to support tenant advocacy and organizing.

Join HPD’s Director of Policy Development and Special Initiatives, Sean Capperis and Senior Analyst on the Business Intelligence + Data Innovation team, Serena McIntosh for an interactive discussion of the history of the Speculation Watch List, the metrics used to select properties for the list, and best practices on utilizing the list. HPD will be joined by Elise Goldin from St. Nick's Alliance for a panel discussion on how they employ the Speculation Watch List and how it has informed their organizing work on the ground.

Join General Assembly & The Advertising/Marketing Analyst Meet-Up for a discussion on how data and specifically open data are impacting the industry. You'll have the opportunity to connect with thought-leaders from the  data community to discuss the possibilities that data brings to life. Happy hour provided by General Assembly.

Followed by the opening remarks on the relevance of collaborations on open data, and keynote address on leveraging data for social impact and successful analytics careers, a panel of Tableau dashboard/viz creators showcase and discuss how and why they have built, or are building the dashboards or decision support tools on open data.

Join us for a discussion on how to leverage city data to better allocate resources for individuals, community organizations, and small businesses who need it. Also, learn about IPFS and VPN’s to secure your own data.

Join us during NYC Open Data Week to explore how open data can help citizens to shape their city, bring equity and catalyze change.

You will hear the latest thinking on what Regenerative Cities are all about and what can be the role of Open Data in shaping them. We will explore ways on  how people can participate, monitor its environment and influence their economy in a way that challenges current paradigms.

The open panel discussion will include:

Sharon Sputz, Director of Strategic Programs from Columbia Data Institute,

Dana Chermesh Reshef, Director of Urban Data and Innovation at Draw Brooklyn,

Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri, Executive Director Civ:Lab, and

Rodrigo Bautista Co-founder of Engage by Design and 21st Century Design.

We promise fun, a thought-provoking conversation and breakfast!

We explore the history and present day functions of surveillance in our society. With new and emerging technologies being utilized to collect information about all of us at an ever-increasing pace, do we know the extent to which our movements, decisions and feelings are being captured and studied? This is the first of a 3 part series, where we'll explore the technology behind new methods of surveillance, its uses locally and globally, and where it all might be heading next.

In this workshop, we invite designers, developers, academics, entrepreneurs, and New Yorkers at large to learn about blockchain technology, open data in NYC, and the NYC BigApps Blockchain Challenge.

Experience the Tech Lab’s full range of services in our monthly open house and talk with staff to jumpstart your project or idea! Explore pop-up stations to learn about video game design, facial recognition, digital animation, sewing, and slime!

Learn how your personal information is being used online and how you can protect it. We will discuss how and why companies track and profit from your browsing data, and give you some tools to keep your online behavior private. We will help you understand what you can do to guard against cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Learn how to search for and download census data using American FactFinder, the Census Bureau's online, self-service tool designed to search a variety of population, economic, geographic and housing information.

Demystifying SQL uses SQL queries, visual representations, and tables to understand how to read and modify data. This workshop will help residents of NYC to understand how to read data commonly found in many jobs relying on SQL and data management. Using online tools, we will view how writing different queries can change what information is given to us. We will also be showing residents how to easily access NYC Open Data and compare the use of filters to explain how queries work and return data.

HackLeague is a friendly academic competition run by the Computer Science of All Initiative (CSforAll) of the NYC Department of Education, in partnership with BetaNYC. The Hack League invites all NYC middle and high school students to learn, design, and build projects to help their community. This year’s competitions has participation from over 100 schools in all five boroughs.

This workshop will introduce several Open Data sources, with a focus on New York City-specific sources. Attendees will learn how and why cities like New York publish Open Data - and how to use Open Data to gather new insights about how our city functions. Tools such as Microsoft Excel and Carto will be introduced, so attendees can learn how to conduct their own analyses of Open Data sources.

Sharing experiences and best practices on open data policy and programs is crucial for improving the accessibility and usability of the open datasets, and in keeping government work transparent and accountable. Come and learn about the opportunities, challenges, and experiences from the City of Buenos Aires and City of New York open data teams about every thing related to open data and open government.

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The Makerspace NYC in Staten Island has grown since 2013 to become a cultural anchor in the borough, and helped thousands of creative entrepreneurs get their start. Join us on March 7th in celebration of NYC Open Data and Open Data Week where we’ll host a member of the Open Data Team to talk about the Open Data program and give a demo of the NYC Open Data portal, a free data resource for the public: www.nyc.gov/opendata

With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), many applications have emerged that rely on a specific form of data that measures how things change over time. This data is commonly known as time-series, and in the past 24 months, time-series specific databases (TSDBs) have remained the fastest growing category of databases. In this talk, we will discuss time-series data, when to use it, and the most effective way to store it. We will consider scalability, as well as usability, and ultimately break down the question of if a time-series database is right for you.

In this session, participants will learn from the Principal of Staten Island Technical High School about how SI Tech utilizes their STEAM Career & Technical Education (CTE) instructional programs to engage students and families from underrepresented / disadvantaged elementary and middle schools. With a goal of increasing equity and access to Staten Island Technical High School, one of 8 Specialized High Schools in New York City, you'll take a data-driven journey and learn how in six years, the outreach program grew to provide access to all students on Staten Island, District 31 middle schools and a number of elementary schools, in Staten Island Tech's Innovative outreach VISIT (Visit Inside Staten Island Tech) program. You will also learn about parent engagement and summer STEAM camp components. Immediately following the hour-long presentation, guests who wish to see the VISIT program in action, may tour the VISIT program as Staten Island Tech welcomes IS 2 and PS 52 for the Thursday, March 7th VISIT session.

Update: This event was originally scheduled for Monday March 4th but was cancelled due to the snowstorm, Civic Hall (the venue) closed for the day. The event has been rescheduled to a virtual engagement for Wednesday March 6th from 12-1pm.

Please join us to get an update on what the NYC Department of Records and Information Services has been working on. Learn about how you can use OpenRecords to easily submit Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests to most city agencies, search for requests that have been fulfilled and released online, and learn about how the city handles FOIL. We’ll also talk about improvements that make it easier to find Government Publications on our Publications Portal.

There are about one million people with Disabilities in NYC. Join Walei Sabry and Sara Rawshanara from the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities as they share ways to make open data accessible to the disability community. You’ll learn about assistive technologies, demonstration of those technologies on open datasets, and guidelines for making digital content accessible using real life examples of graphs and maps such as the Hurricane Evacuation Zone Finder.

Join the NYC Planning Labs team for good times and friendly conversation at our first quarterly happy hour, aka “Labby Hour”.

We’d love to meet fellow government technologists, bureaucrats, civic hackers, open source developers, web mappers, and anyone who cares about better government through tech. If you’re in NYC, come by and say hello!

Give us a yell on twitter @nycplanninglabs if you can make it. See you at Malthouse!

No registration necessary.