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Visiting Assistant Professor Uses Public Data to Transform How New Yorkers See Their City
Ben Wellington uses his popular I Quant NY blog to dig into public New York city data posted by city agencies. He digs deep into the the data to post about the city’s filthiest fast-food chains, mapped out how half of Manhattan is within four blocks of a Starbucks and determined which neighborhoods boast the most trees. “His mission for the blog is simple: to change government policy by using open data.”
- A Data Analyst’s Blog Is Transforming How New Yorkers See Their City. by Farah Halime. All Tech Considered, NPR (November 28, 2014).
Some recent posts:
- Is the NYPD About to Start Ticketing More Cyclists Due to a Mathematical Error?
- The Hot Spots of New York: A Coverage Map of NYC’s Free WiFi Payphones
- Colorfully Decoding Manhattan’s Address System
- Found: The Brooklyn Residence that’s Farthest from the Subway
- Affordable Housing Without Representation
- Found: The Manhattan Apartment that’s the Farthest from any Subway
- You’ll Never Guess the Cleanest Fast Food Joint in NYC
- Fecal Map NYC: The Worst Places to Swim in the City
NYC geographic data now available for free
The city of New York has finally made a wealth of geographic data available for free. As The Atlantic reports, where you once had to pay $1,500, now the entire package of data — cleverly trademarked “BYTES of the BIG APPLE” by the city — can be accessed for free. This also means that anything made from the data can be shared on the Internet.
- BYTES of the BIG APPLE. New York City Department of City Planning.
BYTES of the BIG APPLE is a family of software, data and geographic base map files for the City of New York.
PLUTO and MapPLUTO
Zoning related datasets
Waterfront related datasets
Single Line Street base map dataset
Administrative and Political boundaries
Geocoding Application
Other City Planning datasets - Visual Proof That Geographic Data Really Should Be Free, by Jenny Xie, The Atlantic Cities (Aug 14, 2013).
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