open data – Data Dispatch https://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu NYU Data Services News and Updates Mon, 29 Jan 2018 21:07:47 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DS-icon.png open data – Data Dispatch https://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu 32 32 Data Through Design Competition 2018 https://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu/data-through-design-competition/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:03:50 +0000 http://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu/?p=1183 Anyone who is interested in NYC Open Data and data visualization, especially as physical artwork or installations, should think about participating in the 2018 Data Through Design competition. This year’s theme is “8 Questions for the City,” and participants must use a dataset from the NYC Open Data Portal. To submit to the competition, go to this form. Note that this event is sponsored by the NYC Mayor’s Office, and is co-organized by Carto, SAVI at Pratt, and others. The deadline for submissions is February 2.

 

]]> Bytes of the Big Apple Data Added to NYU SDR https://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu/bytes-of-the-big-apple-data-added-to-nyu-sdr/ Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:02:45 +0000 http://data-services.hosting.nyu.edu/?p=538 In our latest collection update, we have added most of the currently available files from NYC Planning’s Bytes of the Big Apple. Frequent users of the Bytes website appreciate it for its wealth of information, even while they might be frustrated with the somewhat fragmentary and arbitrary structure of data on the site.

logoBy adding this data into our collection, we’ve not only preserved it (and attached relevant documentation), but also made it exceedingly easy to add administrative boundaries and public data to NYC-related mapping projects. For example, look at this quick visualization of the Bronx. I’ve added the MapPLUTO file of the Bronx to my account in CartoDB and created a choropleth map that shows the year (before 1975 and after 1975) that each building was constructed.

By clicking on each parcel, you can see the year of its construction. This is just one element of the data available to be displayed; check out many others in the PLUTO codebook. In all, there are about 50 files added, and this is the first of many forthcoming additions of NYC spatial data. To browse all of the items in our collection, visit the Spatial Data Repository and search “Bytes of the Big Apple.”

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