Tag: Arts and Media

Join us in celebrating NYC Open Data Week by playing with squirrel data! 🐿️ Presented by Kiley Matschke (Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, Barnard College Vagelos Computational Science Center), this workshop will explore the intersection of data visualization and gameplay using real Squirrel Census data. 📊 Participants will learn how to use the game engine LÖVE to work creatively with data through the lens of game design principles. 👾🎮 This workshop is open to people from all backgrounds and coding levels! Beginner friendly. This event is being held hybrid online and in-person at Barnard College. Due to security measures at Barnard College requiring Barnard/Columbia IDs to enter campus, we ask that those who are not affiliated to please attend via Zoom!

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Sandwiches are my passion. When the New York Times unveiled its list of 57 sandwiches that define New York City, I wanted to try them all. The problem: the NYT list only provides sandwich names and restaurant addresses. Determining if I’m near an iconic sandwich requires scrolling, reading, and flipping between the list and Google Maps. The solution: I need a sandwich map!

In this workshop, rather than just traditional coding, we’ll use a large language model (LLM) as a pair programming partner to help us tackle challenges, offer suggestions, and streamline the development process. By the end, you’ll know how to combine basic Python coding with web scraping, Google Maps, and GitHub Pages.

Join F.Y.Eye, a NYC-based nonprofit media agency that works with nonprofit clients, to explore how to harness the power of data to create powerful Public Service Announcements (PSAs). Learn about the importance of information access, how to identify relevant datasets, and craft impactful narratives that resonate with your target audience. We’ll cover practical strategies for transforming raw data into powerful messages that drive social change and amplify your organization’s mission. This event is for anyone curious about the power of combining data insights with compelling storytelling to amplify messages for the public good.

Launched in 2022 as a collaboration between the Queens Memory Project at Queens Public Library and Urban Archive, the Queens Name Explorer is an interactive map with biographical profiles and personal remembrances spanning more than 1,200 places in the borough of Queens. Drawing on data from NYC’s Department of Parks, Department of Transportation, and others, the project offers a user-friendly way to explore local history, from looking up people by name or characteristics (such as by roles like musicians, activists, and politicians), “touring” a neighborhood and clicking on profiles, and using the information on the map to consider how practices of commemoration include and exclude individuals, communities, and their stories.
In this session, participants will gain insight into how civic data sources, original research, and public contributions can be used to highlight local history through creative approaches to personal biography.
Following this introduction, participants will be guided through a series of prompts to think about how named places can be a starting point for further explorations into local history. Participants will dig into the Name Explorer and consider how creative uses of civic data and research can be used for learning and commemoration.