NYC School of Data 2020

There are approximately 1.5 million New Yorkers in households with neither a home or mobile broadband connection and another 1.9 million in households with only one of those types of connections. In January 2020, the Mayor published the first-ever New York City Internet Master Plan, built on a foundation of data gathered from federal sources, City administrative information, field observations, interviews with expert stakeholders, and more. The City now has a framework for decisions about public and private investments in new infrastructure and services to close the digital divide, promote equitable economic development, and address the unique conditions of New York’s diverse communities. In this session, you will hear from some of the experts that gathered and analyzed the data behind the Internet Master Plan. You will learn how to use that data to compare conditions in New York City neighborhoods and to inform decisions about what you can do in your community.

In this interactive workshop we will learn about the upcoming 2020 operations and how to identify and report rumors. We will then work through an interactive ideation session on how we can actively combat them.

Last fall, NYC published its Open Data for All strategic plan. This panel conversation will highlight its insights and discuss the near term objectives we need to accomplish over the next decade. This will be an interactive panel with a short presentation followed up with Q&A.

Discover the organizers and artists who are participating in this year's Data though Design art show — “Digital twin” is a term used to describe a virtual replica of real world phenomena. Digital twin technology is used to model possible scenario outcomes, or to serve as a proxy for “ground truth” in situations where real ground truth is unavailable. The seductive promise of gleaning seemingly unlimited knowledge based on “realistic-but-fake” datasets has led to the adoption of digital twin technology in contexts ranging from transportation engineering to medical research.