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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).

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Saturday, March 7 • 11:30am - 12:30pm
How to improve NYC's Board of Election data

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In the first part of the session, we will explore Crosstown, a new application to make historical election results data from the NYC Board of Elections easier to analyze. NYCBOE data is currently siloed and is difficult to use to compare vote counts from different elections and different years. Crosstown is intended to be useful for voters, candidates, and campaign staff/volunteers by providing data visualizations -- including a map of the city broken down by borough, Assembly District, and Election District -- that make our complex elections system easier to understand.

In the second part, we will brainstorm about additional uses for NYCBOE data in order to propose a format for an election results dataset that could live on the NYC Open Data portal. Depending on the interest/skills of the audience, we may use our time to develop a proposal to the NYCBOE to build and publish that dataset.
Speakers
avatar for Alec Barrett

Alec Barrett

Democratic District Leader
Alec is the lead developer at TWO-N, a boutique data visualization studio. He is also a member of Manhattan Community Board 9 and regular student at trainings by BetaNYC and the Manhattan Borough President's Office. He is an alum of the Recurse Center.

Saturday March 7, 2020 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
2-113 - (14 ppl)
  Workshop   Rooms with Limited Capacity