Data Through Design 2025 Opening Reception

BRIC House Gallery 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Data Through Design is a free public exhibition of ten data-driven, interdisciplinary art works

Telling stories with Open Data dashboards

Open Data is rich, but can be overwhelming. Creating succinct, focused measures from Open Data allows New Yorkers quickly see how things are going and better understand complex issues. The NYC Comptroller’s office recently released two new data dashboards that use Open Data resources to (1) track NYC Agency performance (https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/for-the-public/measuring-nyc-government-performance/overview/) and (2) chart homelessness […]

Free

NYC Urban Heat Portal: exploring urban heat data and how we built it

Hunter College: East Building 695 Park Avenue 7th Floor, Hemmerdinger Screening Room, New York, New York, United States of America

In this presentation, we will introduce our recently developed urban heat portal for NYC. We will demonstrate how each layer in the heat portal is prepared. We used a variety of resources to prepare urban heat layers. They include: Satellite data from Landsat 8 and 9 Weather Station Data from Visual Crossing A variety of […]

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Critical Data Literacy

Anyone who uses data to make decisions must possess certain critical t...

Free

Using Data for Budget Transparency with IBO: Stormwater Fees, Police Overtime Trends, and the State of NYC’s Public Education

The NYC Independent Budget Office (IBO) aims to enhance understanding of New York City’s budget, public policy, and economy through independent analysis. We leverage Open Data in numerous ways to achieve this goal. IBO researchers will present 3 separate projects: - Brian Cain (Assistant Director) & Jordan Paige (Budget and Policy Analyst) modeled the cost […]

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