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 >.
Data Clinic, the data and tech philanthropic arm of Two Sigma, encounters these hurdles on a regular basis, and actively develops tools and products designed to empower users to uncover value in open data. In this session, we will walk people through the use of two of our tools and kickstart a workshop to identify known pain points that still exist with open data and their potential solutions.
The solutions we will demo are:
smooshr: A tool for generating and sharing useful taxonomies derived from open data.
Newerhoods : A Data Clinic project that aggregates NYC Open Data at the tract-level and uses Machine Learning techniques to re-imagine neighborhood boundaries
