Tag: Civic Engagement

Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introduction

Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data.

This training is FREE and OPEN to the public.

You will gain an understanding of:
* What will I learn?
* What is NYC Open Data
* History of the NYC Open Data program
* How to frame questions for working with NYC Open Data
* Using the NYC Open Data website, filtering, and visualizing datasets
* Useful tools powered by NYC Open Data

Who should attend?
* Anyone! No experience necessary.
* Educators & Students
* Librarians & Non-Profit Professionals
* Local Organizers & Decision-Makers
* City Planners and Mappers

The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC.

RSVP here or visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!

Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introduction

Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data.

This training is FREE and OPEN to the public.

You will gain an understanding of:
* What will I learn?
* What is NYC Open Data
* History of the NYC Open Data program
* How to frame questions for working with NYC Open Data
* Using the NYC Open Data website, filtering, and visualizing datasets
* Useful tools powered by NYC Open Data

Who should attend?
* Anyone! No experience necessary.
* Educators & Students
* Librarians & Non-Profit Professionals
* Local Organizers & Decision-Makers
* City Planners and Mappers

The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC.

RSVP here or visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!

Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introduction

Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data.

This training is FREE and OPEN to the public.

You will gain an understanding of:
* What will I learn?
* What is NYC Open Data
* History of the NYC Open Data program
* How to frame questions for working with NYC Open Data
* Using the NYC Open Data website, filtering, and visualizing datasets
* Useful tools powered by NYC Open Data

Who should attend?
* Anyone! No experience necessary.
* Educators & Students
* Librarians & Non-Profit Professionals
* Local Organizers & Decision-Makers
* City Planners and Mappers

The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC.

RSVP here or visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!

Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introduction

Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data.

This training is FREE and OPEN to the public.

You will gain an understanding of:
* What will I learn?
* What is NYC Open Data
* History of the NYC Open Data program
* How to frame questions for working with NYC Open Data
* Using the NYC Open Data website, filtering, and visualizing datasets
* Useful tools powered by NYC Open Data

Who should attend?
* Anyone! No experience necessary.
* Educators & Students
* Librarians & Non-Profit Professionals
* Local Organizers & Decision-Makers
* City Planners and Mappers

The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC.

RSVP here or visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!

Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introduction

Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data.

This training is FREE and OPEN to the public.

You will gain an understanding of:
* What will I learn?
* What is NYC Open Data
* History of the NYC Open Data program
* How to frame questions for working with NYC Open Data
* Using the NYC Open Data website, filtering, and visualizing datasets
* Useful tools powered by NYC Open Data

Who should attend?
* Anyone! No experience necessary.
* Educators & Students
* Librarians & Non-Profit Professionals
* Local Organizers & Decision-Makers
* City Planners and Mappers

The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC.

RSVP here or visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!

Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introduction

Did you know there is free data about nearly every aspect of our city? Come learn how to use it with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data.

This training is FREE and OPEN to the public.

You will gain an understanding of:
* What will I learn?
* What is NYC Open Data
* History of the NYC Open Data program
* How to frame questions for working with NYC Open Data
* Using the NYC Open Data website, filtering, and visualizing datasets
* Useful tools powered by NYC Open Data

Who should attend?
* Anyone! No experience necessary.
* Educators & Students
* Librarians & Non-Profit Professionals
* Local Organizers & Decision-Makers
* City Planners and Mappers

The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC.

RSVP here or visit nyc.gov/discoveropendata to learn more!

Join us as we share lessons learned from applying GenAI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to alternative data sources! We’ll walk through a project where we used Public Pulse Mining to evaluate how the public engages with the General Services Administration’s construction projects and better understand local stakeholder priorities and perceptions.

Then, we’ll dive into an interactive prompt engineering exercise using our master prompt templates for structuring unstructured data. You’ll gain practical takeaways on using AI for public engagement, including how to extract insights from free-text datasets like NYC public meeting YouTube transcripts, 311 feedback, and consumer complaints.

This session is open to all audiences, regardless of technical background. We’ll also share open-source tools and scripts on GitHub so you can apply these methods to your own datasets!

Explore how New York City—home to speakers of over 700 languages—can use data to improve language access for all residents. This collaborative workshop brings together experts from the Department of City Planning, the Department for the Aging, and the Endangered Language Alliance to demonstrate practical applications of language data analysis.
Learn how targeted data collection and analysis helps identify community-specific language needs, ensuring all New Yorkers can meaningfully access services and information. See real examples of how this data drives policy decisions and improves community engagement.

Join us here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83805539365?pwd=Lsc3Awq4o8MHCYjDfJqDiqeiwGBxbx.1

Join Randall’s Island Park Alliance and New York Sea Grant for a discussion on data sharing in the environmental field. Olivia Smith, Park-as-Lab Coordinator, will present on ongoing environmental monitoring projects on Randall’s Island, focusing on waterfront stewardship. The Park-as-lab website will be used as a model for sharing long-term datasets. Catherine Prunella, Water Quality Extension Specialist, will highlight community datasets on flooding and marine debris through the New York Sea Grant interactive dashboard. The event emphasizes the importance of community engagement in collecting environmental data and fostering collaboration among community members, non-profits, and academics.

After the discussion, join a brief guided tour of the Little Hell Gate Salt Marsh to see a restored ecosystem and participate in a microplastic sampling demo. All those interested in environmental science, community data collection, and ecological restoration are welcome!

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.