NYC Open Data Announces Winners of 1st Annual Citywide Competition!
In case you missed it, the winners of the Open Data citywide competition were announced! Talented New Yorkers from all over the city submitted projects based on one or more of the City’s 2,000+ Open Data sets.
This exciting Competition gives New Yorkers the opportunity to be featured on the new Open Data Project Gallery receive a Certificate of Recognition from the Mayor. First place winners will also be invited to present at an upcoming NYC Open Data Event.
The NYC Open Data team today announced four first place winners of the NYC Open Data Project Gallery Contest:
Data Science Award
For the most compelling data analysis using at least one dataset from NYC Open Data
WINNER: Plan(t)wise: planning a green canopy over the Big Apple
Submitted by Niki Athanasiadou.
This project shows which trees can grow the best in NYC based on growth history and survival.
Most Creative Award
For the most compelling visual analysis using at least one dataset from NYC Open Data
WINNER: An Interactive Visualization of Street Trees
Submitted by Allen Yee of cloudred.
This creative project shows the variety and quantity of street trees in all five boroughs. Ever wonder what the most/least common tree in NYC is? Well this project is the place to look!
Mayor’s Civics Award
For the project that best facilitates engaging in civil society and uses at least one dataset from NYC Open Data
WINNER: myPB.community
Submitted by Bitsy Bentley & Hadassah Damien of Participatory Budgeting Project’s Participation Lab:
Open Data Award
For the project that had the highest overall rating and uses at least two datasets from NYC Open Data
WINNER: myPB.community
Submitted by Bitsy Bentley & Hadassah Damien of Participatory Budgeting Project’s Participation Lab:
The Open Data award goes to myPB.community. The project uses a democratic process to help community members decide how to spend public money. The PBNYC completed its 7th cycle of voting in about 60% of the Districts across the city, spending about $30 million tax dollars in the process!
Second and third place winners in various award categories included:
- BoardStat by BetaNYC in partnership with the Manhattan Borough President’s
Office, Manhattan Community Boards, Microsoft Cities & CUNY Service Corps.
- 311 Data & Life in NYC by Oleh Dubno & Danny Argov
- RentLogic by Yale Fox
- NYC Data Explorer by William P Karavites
- Open Sewer Atlas NYC by Korin Tangtrakul of Open Sewer Atlas of NYC
- After the Pride Parade by Wenfei Xu of CARTO
- Five Communities of Williamsburg by Wenfei Xu of CARTO
NYC Open Data is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government. The platform hosts more than 2,000 data assets that are regularly used by entrepreneurs, students, nonprofits, journalists, city staff and others. Each week, more than 20,000 users visit the platform at nyc.gov/opendata. The NYC Open Data program started in 2010 and was strengthened by the NYC Open Data Law (Local Law 11 of 2012), and a series of additional amendments which mandate that City agencies publish all public data on www.nyc.gov/opendata. The Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) partner to form the Open Data team.
For more information, contact Adrienne Schmoeker at the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics at aschmoeker@analytics.nyc.gov
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