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Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around civic data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference concludes NYC’s annual Open Data Week & features 60+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community! Our conversations & workshops will feed your mind and empower you to improve your neighborhood. Follow the conversation #nycSOdata on twitter and tune into our live stream (provided by the Internet Society New York Chapter).

To attend, you need to purchase tickets via eventbrite. Venue is fully accessible and content is all ages friendly — free, professional on-site childcare is provided for ALL participants! If you have accessibility questions or needs, please email us at < schoolofdata@beta.nyc >.

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Saturday, March 7
 

9:00am EST

10:00am EST

11:30am EST

Two Sigma's Data Clinic and a demo of their tools. 1-204 - (24 ppl)Erin Stein • Stuart Lynn Government Publication Portal and OpenRecords Roadmap with NYC's Department of Records 2-119 - (30 ppl)Gerald Rosero • Julia Robbins • Ridhdhi Patel What do we know about the state of the internet in NYC? (Hosted by Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer)) 1-203 - (100 ppl)Josh Breitbart • Greta Byrum • Yamil Lora • Ariel Benjamin Office Hours with NYC 311 2-118 - (14 ppl)Chenda Fruchter Scaling up our Open Data: Exploring a State Open Data Law 3-301 - (60 ppl)Lucy Block • Alex Camrada • Tyler Kleykamp • Anita Long Using Data to Improve the Laws of New York City facilitated by New York City Council's Data Team 1-205 - (42 ppl)Brook Frye • Rose Martinez • Melissa Nunez • Irene Byhovsky Air quality data panel with Department of Health, Queens Public Library, the Manhattan Borough President’s Office 2-301 (220 ppl)Daniel Alam • Sarah Johnson • Sadie Coughlin-Prego Tools for democracy 1-202 - (100 ppl)Cordelia Yu • Christina See • Shanna Crumley • Tina Ye • Tiasia O'Brien Developing in the open & rebuilding PLUTO 3-302 - (60 ppl)Amanda Doyle • Baiyue Cao • Baoling Zhou • Molly Graber Environmental advocacy meets emerging technology: A bottom-up approach to smart city projects 2-116 - (30 ppl)Briana Garcia • Vaughn Shinall Modernize Community Engagement (Part 1): Leverage Location Data in Interactive Maps, Smart Data Collection Apps, and Live Reporting Dashboards (Presentation) 3-114 - (48 ppl)Paul Trevillion • Piyali Kundu How to improve NYC's Board of Election data 2-113 - (14 ppl)Alec Barrett Vacant Storefront App w/ Astoria Tech 2-115 - (14 ppl)Peter Valdez • Blane Cordes

12:30pm EST

1:45pm EST

2:30pm EST

3:00pm EST

Gaps in Climate and Flood Risk Data: What's Missing? 2-115 - (14 ppl)JT White • Susanna Pho Demo of the Hazard History & Consequence Tool and Office Hour with NYCEM data managers 3-301 - (60 ppl)Shraddha Ramani • Mohamed Amin NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development - Office Hours 2-116 - (30 ppl)AnnMarie Santiago • Serena McIntosh Inequities in public space 1-205 - (42 ppl)Madison Loew • Nikita Price • Margaret Jankowsky • Eric Goldfischer NYC's Lost Opportunity to Stop Racist Algorithms 2-301 (220 ppl)Albert Fox Cahn • Liz O'Sullivan • Katurah Topps • Genevieve Fried • Meredith Whittaker Creating Pathways for a New Generation of Civic Leaders - CIF and CDF Talk Shop 1-202 - (100 ppl)Ramesh Beharry • Emily Goldman • Zhi Keng He • Rachel Dodell • Emily Fong The future of open gov portals & programs, a conversation with Mayor's Office of Data Analytics and open data leaders. 1-203 - (100 ppl)Natalia Domagala • Chris Whong • Zachary Feder • ivan metzger Harnessing Collaboration and Open Data to Tackle Earth’s Challenges 3-302 - (60 ppl)Radhika Bhatt It’s Crunch Time: Using Hard Data to Support Bicycle Network Development 2-119 - (30 ppl)Amber Knee • Patrick Kennedy • Paula Rubira Teaching Civics and Data — Making open data and data science meaningful for students 3-114 - (48 ppl)Renne Castro • Jeff Olson NYCDB, what is it and how to use it, by Housing Data Coalition 1-204 - (24 ppl)Atul Varma • Maxwell Austensen • Noelle Francois • Sam Raby Open Data for All by All - a working session around data.beta.nyc 2-118 - (14 ppl)Joel Natividad Open Data + High School Selection / Workshop 2-117 - (14 ppl)Marc Sewtz Unintended consequences - hunting for monsters in open data 2-113 - (14 ppl)Graham Dove • Anne-Laure Fayard

4:15pm EST

NYC Tenant Problems, a data dashboard 3-115-116 (Commons)Vanessa Mateus Government Data and Analysis: Balancing Innovation, Privacy, and Security 2-301 (220 ppl)Annie McDonough • Jeff Thamkittikasem • Kelly Jin • Geoff Brown Data through Design - a conversation with organizers and selected artists 1-203 - (100 ppl)Alexander Kennedy • Sara Eichner • Abe Rubenstein • Cameron Yick • Mariya Chekmarova • Hana Dunston Collections as Data/Data as Collections, open data + libraries + privacy 1-202 - (100 ppl)Sarah Rankin • Sarah Lamdan • Jeffery Lambert • Greg Cram • Nick Wolfe Collecting and Mapping NYC Contracted Social Service Sites - Usability Workshop 3-114 - (48 ppl)Adam Santos • Martha Norrick • Sujin Lee How to build databases "with not for" — CBDB overview 1-204 - (24 ppl)Devin Balkind Merging Psychology and Consulting Frameworks: A Guide for Practical Data Solving 1-205 - (42 ppl)Phuong Nguyen • Kamal Abdelrahman Spreading civic tech and open gov beyond the big city, a workshop with Sunlight Foundation and Code for America 3-301 - (60 ppl)Tom Dooner • Greg Jordan-Detamore Using Open Data to Accelerate Data Literacy Learning 3-302 - (60 ppl)Elana Shneyer • Elizabeth DiLuzio Workshop - Into to Qri 2-119 - (30 ppl)Brendan O'Brien • Chris Whong Staying Warm on a Hotter Planet: An Introduction to Building Energy Data & NYC’s Pathway to Carbon Neutrality 2-116 - (30 ppl)Melissa Hsiung • Genevieve Hoffman Hands on workshop - R + Election Data, learn to create a walk sheet for every election district in the county 2-113 - (14 ppl)Jonna Heldrich • Sara Hodges A new way to build apps with open data - an introduction to Signalpattern™ 2-115 - (14 ppl)Peter Semmelhack • Vishal Kumar

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