Our team at the Center for Urban Research is collaborating with The New York World to analyze the impacts of redistricting in New York State. The latest effort was featured today on the front page of the Times Union; it focuses on how the majority parties in the State Senate and Assembly would likely retain — [...]
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New York State, like all other states, is in the midst of redrawing its legislative district lines. To help you follow along, our team at the Center for Urban Research has launched an interactive redistricting map for New York. We collaborated with The New York World to develop the maps (though we encourage anyone and everyone [...]
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UPDATE February 5, 2012 You can visualize these proposed districts in relation to the current New York State Senate and Assembly districts with our new interactive redistricting map. We developed the interactive map in collaboration with The New York World, and here’s an article using the maps to describe the redistricting process in the Empire [...]
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Rob Goodspeed has an interesting post about his survey of the policies and practices of local governments in Massachusetts regarding GIS data. It looks like a good read. In my experience (in New York State), local governments can have more interesting GIS data (for example, tax parcels and real property records) than the state or [...]
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I noticed today that NYC’s new OpenData site (on the Socrata platform) has made some modest improvements since I blogged about it earlier this month, and since several people have responded to comments from Socrata’s CEO. In particular, many of the files listed in the Socrata/OpenData site as “GIS” files or “shapefiles” are now actually [...]
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@nycgov posted a tweet on Friday touting the map of WiFi hotspots on the new NYC OpenData site. I was impressed the city was trying to get the word out about some of the interesting data sets they’ve made public. It was retweeted, blogged about, etc many many times over during the day. The map [...]
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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 “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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