NYC students 18 and younger are invited to participate in a weekend long coding design challenge that the Museum of the Moving Image, along with the Hive NYC and the Young Rewired State, will be hosting on June 29-30th. During the challenge, young people will be developing digital prototypes using open government data, working under the guidance of mentors who are professional programmers.
To sign up as a mentor or interested youth, visit http://bit.ly/VXzFBC
The Mayor’s Geek Squad
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/nyregion/mayor-bloombergs-geek-squad.html
Calling all Data Enthusiasts!
The first NYC Data Week, co-produced by the New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) and O’Reilly Media’s Strata Conference + Hadoop World spans October 22-26, 2012. The week’s line-up includes a Startup Showcase with Fred Wilson and Tim O’Reilly, Ignite NYC @Strata, a hackathon, and several meetups.
As part of the citywide celebration, data champions are also invited to help plan the week by adding their own events to a crowdsourced calendar. Join the celebration!
Today, the White House recognized Michael Flowers, Director of Analytics at NYC’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning as one of the 13 Local Innovation Champions of Change for his work and use of data-driven analytics to identify the best ways City government can address multi-faceted problems.
The City’s Policy and Strategic Planning Analytics team analyzes data from City agencies to help quickly and efficiently allocate government resources to address crime, safety and other challenges.
“Since day one, we’ve empowered everyone in our Administration to try new and bold approaches to tackling old problems and base solutions on hard data, not ideology or partisan philosophy,” said Mayor Bloomberg. “Michael Flowers and his team have exemplified our approach and taken it to new levels of success… I want to congratulate Michael and his entire team.” - Mayor Bloomberg
Read more at http://on.nyc.gov/SjIkI6
Last weekend we hosted our first DataDive back in our hometown of NYC since our first event last October and it was, in no uncertain terms, incredible. The NYC Parks Department delivered three amazing projects related to tracking tree diversity in NYC, assessing areas of high risk during storms, and assessing how effective their pruning programs are in reducing work orders.
Show Off Your Design Skills & Enter Today
Designers, show the world why NYC is the best city for business. Enter the NYC Best for Business Infographic Competition 2012 for a chance to win $1,000 cash prize, a poster-size print of your work signed by Mayor Bloomberg, and bragging rights as the City’s top infographic designer.
Infographics must incorporate the NYCEDC Dataset to be eligible. The top applicants will be selected as semifinalists and the winner will be chosen by public voting on NYCEDC.com.
The deadline for submissions is September 21, 2012. Find out more at www.nycedc.com/bestforbusiness. Show off your design skills and enter today!
Final week to enter our infographic competition! Take a look at the dataset and visualize it for a chance to win $1,000 cash and other prizes.
This weekend, the New York City Departments of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) and Parks & Recreation (DPR), along with partner DataKind – a community of data scientists dedicated to solving challenges through data – hosted the first-ever NYC City agency DataDive. The event allowed data enthusiasts to work directly with Parks data on the urban forest to uncover innovative ideas and solutions.Using a variety of datasets including an NYC tree census (a feed with more than 600,000 of the City’s street trees available on the NYC OpenData portal) Parks asked DataDivers to help with the following challenges:
- How has the City’s tree species composition changed over time, and what it will be in the future?
- How we can predict where our urban forest will be most vulnerable to storms?
- Does programmatic maintenance reduce future citizen requests in an area? E.g. tree pruning
Using tools like CartoDB to dynamically map tree data, teams came up with impressive results under tight time constraints. Check out this awesome NYC tree diversity explorer, an early map showing storm damage risk areas, and one team’s process used to investigate the impact of tree pruning.
During the weekend, the teams also took breaks to hear talks and demonstrations by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Policy & Strategic Planning, NYC Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence (CIDI), and Palantir.
Huge thanks to all who participated! Stay tuned for an announcement about the next DataDive in late October 2012.
Mike Flowers, Director of the City’s Policy and Strategic Planning Analytics Team, explains how the city has been using building data to crack down on illegal apartment conversions, which helps prevent fires. As a result of this effort, building inspectors saw a five-fold increase in the uncovering and remediation of illegal conversions.
Data Source: Open Wifi NYC
Maps Creator: Susana Siman
NYC Media Lab today launched Media Mash, a competition for developers and students to mash up data from the city’s top media and tech companies to create new insights, experiences, and business models.
Open to individuals and organizations with fewer than 50 employees in the U.S., Media…
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