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  • Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) Learning Lab, “Tackling Food Insecurity”

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

    Georgia State University’s Library Research Data Services (RDS) Department launched the Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) Learning Lab, a grant-funded experiential learning course titled “Tackling Food Insecurity.” Offered in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024, the course connected students with local organizations—Panther’s Pantry, Wholesome Wave Georgia, MARTA Markets, and ATLytiCS—to apply data skills toward addressing food […]

  • 🍿’Tech For Us’: NYC Premiere and PIT Conversation at City Tech

    The Theater at City Tech 275 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    How can we use technology to change our city and the world for the better? Join us for an exclusive screening of Roadtrip Nation’s newest documentary “Tech for Us” + a Public Interest Tech conversation at City Tech! Check out the trailer below and RSVP here!  

    Free

  • Closing Ceremony

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

    Welcome to the 12th and final day of the NYC PIT Pop Up! Today we wrap up the first ever NYC PIT Pop Up and envision what the future holds for public interest technology. Closing Day Schedule: Daily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm Worlds We Carry Your Peer The Reboot: 6:00pm-7:30pm

  • Worlds We Carry

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

    Worlds We Carry is an interactive installation that invites the public to imagine what we should carry forward into the future, whether into space or here on Earth. Participants are invited to map the places that matter to them – from corner parks to neighborhood restaurants – and share what gives these spaces meaning. Each […]

  • YourPeer & Streetlives

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

    YourPeer allows service-seekers to find free and low-cost social resources. It’s also a tool to help people assist others who could use those resources. YourPeer helps communities rebuild. Streetlives’ goal is to shorten the time it takes for youth (16-24) to transition from housing instability to being stably housed and thriving. YourPeer and Streetlives are […]

  • The Reboot: Day 11

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

    The Reboot is our time to hang out, reflect on the day’s demos, and interact with the online PIT community.

  • NYC PIT Pop-Up Relaunch Open House

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

    On Friday, January 9th from 12:00pm-6:00pm, the City University of New York Public Interest Technology Lab (CUNY PIT Lab), in partnership with BetaNYC and the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), will be hosting an open house announcing the re-launch of the NYC PIT Pop-Up after a highly successful debut in the fall of 2025. […]

  • What’s Lost in the Waters? Dive into NYC’s Flood Vulnerability Index (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: Sneha Srivastava (Macaulay Honors College) The goal of this project is to visualize the variables included in New York City’s Flood Vulnerability Index dataset. The key visualization is a three-dimensional interactive model, mapping the Flood Susceptibility to Harm and Recovery Index against the median household income of each census tract within the city, in […]

  • 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 center didn’t just store files, but also used its excess heat to warm a public pool in the winter? What if your neighborhood’s digital history […]

  • Brooklyn Through Data Design : Mapping Place, Power, and Urban Systems

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

    Presenter: Apurva Jhamb Centered on Brooklyn, the event will showcase a series of data-driven maps and visual narratives created using NYC Open Data datasets related to housing, land use, landmarks, environmental conditions, and neighborhood change. The session will demonstrate how public data when paired with thoughtful design can move beyond technical analysis to become an […]

  • 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: Nate 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 in unique ways over the course of a weekend. Last year, there were over 100k participants globally. You’ll meet participants from last year’s hackathon including […]

  • 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 Open Data and AI might be used to help their organizations, and to share experiences and challenges they currently face. The session will include hands-on […]