OPEN DATA NYC is a government publicly-made available data. They encourage mapping activities to enact change in the city.

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How might we highlight evidence-based data storytelling to drive change in a community, through equitable mapping?

Themes and Focus Areas

Participants can choose from a variety of NYC Open Data themes to base their projects on. Some potential focus areas could include:

• Affordable Housing & Gentrification: Create a map that helps residents understand neighborhood changes over time, access to affordable housing, and potential areas at risk of displacement.
• Transportation Accessibility: Design a tool that helps individuals with disabilities or limited mobility navigate NYC’s public transportation system more efficiently.
• Environmental Justice: Build a map that highlights air quality, green spaces, and environmental hazards to help communities track environmental health risks.
• Public Health & Safety: Create visualizations that track health disparities, vaccination rates, or crime data across different neighborhoods to give residents insights into local health and safety issues. </aside>

Get inspired:

Read about how volunteers in NYC conducted a squirrel sighting project: https://www.thesquirrelcensus.com/data

Open Data NYC Project Gallery!

See how NYC Open Data is used by activists to advocate for change, by entrepreneurs to develop products, by teachers to build analytics skills in the classroom, by government agencies to make data more accessible, and much more.

We’re always looking to publish projects highlighting NYC Open Data in action and encourage you to share your work by submitting it to the Project Gallery!

The Project Gallery encourages a diverse array of submissions – visualizations, tools, tutorials, and much more. The best projects meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Does the project improve upon a user’s ability to understand a specific NYC Open Data dataset?
• Does the project help New Yorkers answer a question or solve a problem using NYC Open Data datasets?
• Does the project feature compelling and user-friendly visuals and design ?
• Does the project engage with an NYC Open Data dataset using a novel format or perspective?
• Does the project provide an instructional overview, share code, or explain design choices of the analytics work behind it?

Note that a submission does not need to meet every criteria in order to be considered for publication, but all projects must use NYC Open Data.

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