Thursday, March 27, 2025

Hello everyone, it’s hard to believe we’re approaching the end of Open Data Week 2025! This week, we’ve enjoyed building tools, creating visualizations, mapping, coding, and thinking of data through a critical lens.

But most of all, we’ve enjoyed connecting with you and learning your stories. Thank you to those of you who have joined us so far! 🫶🏾 If you haven’t joined us yet, no fear—we’re not done yet! There are still plenty of events coming up.

📊 Coming up at NYC Open Data Week 📊

March 28 at 9 am EDT - Morning Coffee with the Open Data Week Team ☕ 3.28. Start off your day with the NYC Open Data Week Team! Come connect with event organizers and fellow attendees, ask questions, share announcements, and get a sneak peek at the day's highlights.

March 28 at 10 am EDT - Discovering NYC Open Data: An Introductory Class. Come learn how to use NYC Open Data with the NYC Open Data Ambassadors! Join us for an online workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of using NYC Open Data. The Open Data Ambassadors program is a collaboration between NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Open Data Team and BetaNYC.

March 28 at 6 pm EDT - Open Data Lightning Talk Showcase. Join the NYC Office of Technology & Innovation for a lightning talk showcase, featuring open data use cases about the human brain, the environment, web domains, trash cans, and film locations.

🏫 Coming up at NYC School of Data 🏫

Continue the NYC Open Data Week 2025 celebrations this Saturday at NYC School of Data! Join us at CUNY School of Law; we’ll have 30+ sessions that demystify the policies and practices surrounding open data, public interest technology, and service design. Register today and check out the schedule! We also have ASL translation upon request, scholarships (deadline is extended to tomorrow at 12 pm!), and solidarity tickets – which help to support scholarships.

👀 Here are some of our featured events 👀

• Mapping Urban Ecologies: The Need for Data for Achieving Biodiverse Places - our very own Naeema Haque will be here!
• Machine Readable Laws: How LLMs can help democratize NYC Administrative Code - hosted by Jordan Shapiro, part of  BetaNYC’s Associate Board
• Turnout for What: An Exploration of Voter Engagement Using Open Data - featuring Malika Mohan, part of  BetaNYC’s Associate Board
• Creating a Multimodal Urban Planning Simulation for Diverse Publics using NYC Open Data - stop by and say hello to our very own Andrew Kittredge!
• Data Comics Workshop - hosted by Kelly Dinneen, part of  BetaNYC’s Associate Board
• In Code We Trust: Volunteering and Careers in Government & Public Interest Technology - moderated by our very own Noel Hidalgo!
• Let's Build a NYC Public Interest Tech Lab - A Visioning Game - in partnership with the CUNY Public Interest Tech Lab
• NYC Urban Heat Portal: workshop to leverage data for heat resilience advocacy and planning - check out the BetaNYC Lab team’s work!

🎨 Coming up at Data Through Design 🎨

Now to April 6 - Data Through Design Exhibition – Corpus: Bodies of Data. Come check out this year’s exhibit at BRIC House Gallery in Downtown Brooklyn.

March 30 at 2 pm EDT - Data Through Design 2025 Artist Panel. Meet the artists behind this year’s exhibition!

March 30 at 4 pm EDT - Data Vandals: Guerrilla Data Lab. After the Artist Panel, join Data Vandals’ Jen Ray and Jason Forrest for a hands-on mini-workshop to craft data posters with markers!

Hope to see you soon! 💗

Community Resources 📚 

Yesterday, during our Open Data Week morning virtual coffee (sign up for tomorrow’s here!), Kathleen Steed shared some great resources with us, which we’ve listed below. Thank you, Kathleen!

• GetSetUp - https://www.getsetup.io/ 

• Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) - https://oats.org/ 

• Project Open - https://www.ponyc.org/ 

• Tech Explorer Community - https://techexplorercommunity.com/landing 

• Tech for Senior - https://www.techforsenior.com/ 

• Senior Planet - https://seniorplanet.org/

Additional Resources:

• Tech for Palestine information - Tech for Palestine 

• So You’re Thinking About Talking to the Press - Technologists for the Public Good

• The Power of Community-Driven Small Language Models - Betsy Gardner

• Louise Jefferson: A Trailblazing Cartographer and the Future of GIS - Jeffrey Derose

• Attorney General James Urges 23AndMe Customers to Contact Company to Delete Data - Office of the New York State Attorney General Letitia James

This Week in NYC Civic Tech 🗽

• Data Innovation and Transparency in NYC with Martha Norrick, Chief Analytics Officer - Schneps Broadcasting 

• New York City Council 2025 primary races to watch - Sahalie Donaldson, Annie McDonough and Holly Pretsky

• ‘Not a Game’: MTA Brass Counter Trump Admin Insults and Threats With Facts and Figures - Jose Martinez

• Who's offering outdoor dining in NYC this year? Check out our map. - Ryan Kailath

This Week in Data + Gov News 🏛️

• The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - Jeffrey Goldberg

• Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal - Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris

• A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education - Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois

• Gender pay gap hits historic low in 2024—but remains too large - Katherine deCourcy and Elise Gould

Jobs Alert and Announcements 💼

• The Center for Population Health Data Science is seeking an Assistant Commissioner, Data Technology & Strategy, Director, Data Governance Strategy and Standards, Bureau of Data Technology & Strategy, and a Senior Director, Digital Data Experience Transformation, Bureau of Data Technology & Strategy among other roles. 

• The New York State Digital Service is hiring for several roles based in NYC and Albany. 

• Notion is recruiting a Software Engineer, Integrations among other roles.

• The People's Tech Project is looking for a Resource Organizer.

Upcoming Events 📆

Note: All times are listed in EDT. Submit this form to advertise your event here!

• Now to April 6 Data Through Design’s Corpus: Bodies of Data 

• Now to March 30 NYC Open Data Week

• March 29 NYC School of Data (Tickets still on sale!) 

• April 1 at 6 pm Data Pride NYC Presents: Coworking & Community Night!

• April 2 at 5:15 pm ATIH Author Series: a conversation with Jessica Elefante, author of Raising Hell, Living Well

• April 2 at 6:30 pm Startup Tech Mixer (by Ishaan and Somya)

• April 2 to 3 Smart City Expo USA

• April 10 at 12 pm Data for Good Roundtable: Challenges and Opportunities in an Age of Uncertainty

• April 17 at 4 pm Techonomy @ Civic Hall: An AI Conversation 

• April 17 at 6:30 pm Info We Trust: The Craft of Data Graphics

• April 24 at 1:30 pm CS3 VALIDATE Accelerator Demo Day

• June 19 to 21 State of the Map US, Boston

• June 10 to 11 TICTeC 2025, Mechelen, Belgium and Online

• November 12 to 14 2025 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference

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