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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Our team at the Center for Urban Research (at the CUNY Graduate Center) has updated our interactive maps showing race/ethnicity patterns from 2000 and 2010 in major cities across the US. We’ve enhanced the maps in several ways: Added more cities. We now have 15 major urban regions mapped across the US (Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, [...]
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Our team at the Center for Urban Research (at the CUNY Graduate Center) has launched a set of maps showing race/ethnicity patterns from 2000 and 2010 in major cities across the US. The maps combine several mapping/web technologies that offer a new way of visualizing population change. This post explains how we did it. (And [...]
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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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Today our team at the CUNY Graduate Center updated the www.OASISnyc.net mapping site with lots of new data. There’s more to come by summer’s end, but here’s the latest: The biggest change is that we’ve added the latest community garden inventory from GrowNYC. Over a year in the making, it comes just in time to [...]
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