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Visiting Assistant Professor Uses Public Data to Transform How New Yorkers See Their City

December 4, 2014 / Leave a comment

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 […]

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NYC geographic data now available for free

August 15, 2013 / Leave a comment

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. Continue reading →

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Roundup of New Resources and Other Government Info News (18 Items)

September 30, 2011 / Leave a comment

Hello From DC. Here are some catchup items from the past couple of weeks that I was unable to get to when the stories were first posted over the past 10 days. I've culled a selection of items from our INFOdocket.com site that we update seven days a week. We hope you find them useful. 1. EPA Launches New Mapping Tool to Improve Public Access to Enforcement Information 2. Gov Docs: Enhancements Made to GPO’s MetaLib Federated Search Resource 3. Reference Resource: New Economic Indicator Database Search Available from Census Bureau 4. Canada: Government Documents: Library and Archives Canada Digitizes Past Issues of the Canada Gazette (1841-1997) More than 150 years of content. 5. Privacy: Social Media: U.S. Congress Members Want FTC To Investigate Facebook Tracking Includes link to full text of a letter sent to FTC. 6. Privacy: “WSJ.com Begins Tracking Personal User Information Without Consent” 7. Reference: New York City: “Detailed Crime Data Online” (New Database) 8. Online Civil War Era National Cemeteries Travel Itinerary Launched by the National Park Service 9. Recently Launched: PACER Training Site 10. A Collection of International Mobile Statistics from the ITU 11. Recently Released: Library of Congress Annual Report, FY 2010 12. Reference: Nuclear Energy: A New Science Tracer Bullet from the Library of Congress 13. New From CRS: Social Media and Disasters: Current Uses, Future Options, and Policy Considerations 14. NCES Releases Projections of Education Statistics to 2020 15. HHS Announces Text4Health Task Force Recommendations and Global Partnership 16. New CRS Report: Illegal Internet Streaming of Copyrighted Content: Legislation in the 112th Congress 17. U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientific Research Data Now Easier to Find, Datasets Now Being Registered with DataCite 18. Reference: USAID Releases Open Data and Maps on Famine in the Horn of Africa Continue reading →

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