• The Cloud is a Place in Brooklyn (Open Data Week)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter: Zoe Voss Lee (MIT) In this speculative design workshop, we ask: What if our data infrastructure lived in our neighborhood parks, schools, or community gardens? What if a data […]

  • Space Apps Showcase (Open Data Week)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States
    CUNY affiliated

    Presenter: Nathan Cooper (Kingsborough Community College) In this session, learn about the NASA Space Apps Challenge, NASA’s global data hackathon. Each year NASA posts 11 challenges to use its data […]

  • Drop-in Data Discussions & AI Dialogs for Real World Solutions (Open Data Week)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter: Lauri Goldkind (Fordham University) This is a one-day in-person drop-in, office hours style session aimed at human services professionals and similar public sector staff to learn about ways that […]

  • Black Knowledge Erasure Dataset

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States
    CUNY affiliated

    Presenter: Sasha Richardson (CUNY Graduate Center) The Black Knowledge Erasure Dataset (BKED) is a research archive designed to document how AI models like GPT-5 and Gemini distort Black history and […]

  • MTA Performance Metrics (Open Data Week)

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    Presenter: Lisa Mae Fiedler (MTA) The MTA’s dashboard, metrics.mta.info, which is built entirely off of open data, is going through a major redesign in 2026. We’d like to collect user […]

  • Crashcount.nyc: an open data tool for safe-streets advocacy (Open Data Week)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter: Michael Freedman Crashcount.nyc is a public, open-data–driven tool that uses NYC Open Data and AI to document and contextualize traffic crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists, with the goal of […]

  • DuBois Does Data (Open Data Week)

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    Presenter: Mike Spade (The Knowledge House) 35 years after slavery, Du Bois set out to provide a definitive image of the Negro condition in the United States. His data efforts […]

  • Gamifying Know-Your-Rights Information (Open Data Week)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter: Ray Brescia (Albany Law School) This presentation will explore the power of gamification and then describe one current work in progress, an online game, “Haunted Housing,” that is designed […]

  • VoteFeed.org (Open Data Week)

    NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus 185 Greenwich Street, Shop #LL4345, Level LL4, New York, NY, United States

    Presenter: Merlin Valdez VoteFeed.org is a Twitter/Bluesky-like user experience that allows constituents to interact with their respective U.S. representative in congress by sharing their opinion on policies up for vote […]