UPDATE (10/13/11) This evening I received a call from NYC DoITT. They were mainly calling to tell me that they changed the official rules for BigApps 3.0. Yesterday the rules said that no new data would be added to the OpenData site until after the BigApps competition. As I said in my blog, why wait? [...]
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UPDATE (Feb. 2012) Reader Steve Vance suggests in the comments below that I could use Google Refine to parse the JSON file and convert it to Excel without relying on the tedious Microsoft Word editing process I summarize below. He’s right. Google Refine is amazing. It converted the JSON file to rows/columns in about a second. [...]
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The latest tracking information for Hurricane Irene (as of Friday morning, 8/26) shows that the storm is likely going to pass east of New York City and make a head on collision with Long Island. Newsday is reporting that it will hit western Suffolk County’s south shore on Saturday with “tropical-storm-force winds” and then ramp [...]
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UPDATED (8/25/11 9am): We’ve added a temporary map layer on OASIS showing the locations of NYC’s hurricane evacuation centers. Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/oBsUY8 . It’s easy to use: Hover your mouse over each one to highlight it (the site details will also be highlighted in the panel on the right). Click on a map marker [...]
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I had a recent Twitter exchange with @NYCAging, the twitter account for New York City’s Department for the Aging. I think it points up how inconsistent the efforts are across city agencies to provide access to their data. In this case, DFTA was touting the “staggering” amount of data they produced recently. But the document [...]
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The “Socratic Method” of publishing city data? I was encouraged at the OpenGov Camp this past Sunday by an announcement from NYC DoITT that the city will be using Socrata to provide online access to its data. It’s a great platform. It doesn’t ensure that the city will actually provide good data, or update it in a [...]
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I watched today’s news event by New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg and his colleagues about the city’s new “Digital Road Map” [PDF]. Impressive effort, including the livestream webcast. But I thought the Twitter stream during the Mayor’s webcast was especially interesting. Seemed to me that there were just as many tweets about real-world problems (potholes, [...]
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Earlier this week I posted an item about stagnation at NYC Data Mine as well as my thoughts more generally on the city’s #opendata policies and practices. Today I discuss another challenge regarding open data: data quality and poor metadata. Background We recently updated the OASIS community mapping website with several data sets: community gardens, subways, bus routes, [...]
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Last fall I had high hopes that New York City would loosen the shackles that agencies too often held tightly around “their” data sets. The city’s BigApps competition had just been announced, the new Data Mine website was launched with many data sets I never imagined would see the light of day, and the city [...]
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