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SUMMARY:What's Lost in the Waters? Dive into NYC's Flood Vulnerability Index (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Sneha Srivastava (Macaulay Honors College) \nThe 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 addition to maps of future flooding scenarios. As such\, the project tackles issues of environmental justice and sustainability\, while addressing the policy implications of climate resilience in different neighborhoods. \nBio: Sneha Srivastava is pursuing her second master’s degree in Data Analysis to complement her background in International Affairs and market research.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/whats-lost-in-the-waters-dive-into-nycs-flood-vulnerability-index/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:CUNY affiliated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T140000
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SUMMARY:The Cloud is a Place in Brooklyn (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Zoe Voss Lee (MIT) \nIn 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 was stored in a “Community Memory Bank” that you helped manage? What if data infrastructure was owned by communities and served community needs? \nBio: Zoe Voss Lee is an urbanist building tools that shift power toward communities by collectivizing efforts for environmental and economic justice. Currently seeking conversations with people building community power through decentralized energy and data infrastructure in New York City!
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/the-cloud-is-a-place-in-brooklyn-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T140000
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Through Data Design : Mapping Place\, Power\, and Urban Systems
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Apurva Jhamb \nCentered 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 accessible storytelling tool for communities\, planners\, designers\, and civic technologists.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/brooklyn-through-data-design-mapping-place-power-and-urban-systems/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T180000
DTSTAMP:20260605T084704
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SUMMARY:Space Apps Showcase (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Nate Cooper (Kingsborough Community College) \nIn 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 winning teams\, judges\, and mentors from the NYC local site. What does it take to turn an open data set into something useful\, fun\, and engaging? Learn what happened\, what projects are still being developed\, and how to build your own solutions using NASA’s data. Following a presentation\, we’ll do a hands-on workshop so you can learn how to build your own open data app. \nBio: Nate Cooper is a lecturer in the UX Design concentration at Kingsborough College. Nate has been a Partner at SWARM\, a UX\, Product Design Agency founded in 2013 in New York City. \nNate has been developing websites professionally since 1997. After working in marketing at Apple Inc\, Nate established himself within the New York tech and startup community. His writing has appeared in Mashable and his book Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML\, CSS and WordPress has been a bestseller in Programming: CSS books on Amazon.com.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/space-apps-showcase-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:CUNY affiliated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T130000
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SUMMARY:Drop-in Data Discussions & AI Dialogs for Real World Solutions (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Lauri Goldkind (Fordham University) \nThis 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 activities and demos\, educational materials\, informal one-on-one discussions\, group Q+A’s\, and design activities. The first hour will include interactive table demonstrations of open data resources; the second hour will focus on the potential of AI capabilities for documenting impacts and improving organizational performance; the third hour will offer human services and local government agency staff the change to bring their data questions to office hours\, meeting with like-minded colleagues\, academics with domain expertise in data and AI literacy and student assistants. \nBio: Lauri Goldkind is a Professor of Social Work at the Graduate School of Social Service\, Fordham University. She is interested in how digital tools\, artificial intelligence and open data can make the lives of individuals in and served by the social sector better. She is honored to partner with orgs such as the Nonprofit AI Sprint\, Social Current\, BetaNYC and Breaking Ground.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/drop-in-data-discussions-ai-dialogs-for-real-world-solutions-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T180000
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SUMMARY:MindHeart AI: Developing Healing Technologies and Consensual Data Practices in the World of AI (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Kierstin Gray\, Dr. Sará King and Katie Rouse \nMindHeart AI is a liberatory technology company centering the neuroscience of well being as a catalyst for intergenerational planetary healing. We create trauma-informed technologies that allow individuals to cultivate the necessary awareness to design sustainable pathways to well-being across personal\, social\, professional and collective communities. Utilizing the Systems Based Awareness Map\, the world’s first interactive map of human awareness\, we are building a scalable\, equitable platform combined with experiences that we call MindHeart Activations – in-person events that support collective healing through combining culturally relevant forms of somatics\, contemplative practices\, land-based rituals and retreats\, music and art\, all designed to create an infrastructure of care as a loving response to our awareness of the rising loneliness\, stress\, isolation and depression experienced across the world. \nBio: Kierstin Gray is the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of MindHeart AI. Her specialties are in using technology and service design thinking principles to bring about transformative change. She has designed frameworks that center around the building of narratives that use existing talents and skills within an organization to enable innovative change to resolve business problems.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/mindheart-ai-developing-healing-technologies-and-consensual-data-practices-in-the-world-of-ai-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Knowledge Erasure Dataset
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Sasha Richardson (CUNY Graduate Center) \nThe Black Knowledge Erasure Dataset (BKED) is a research archive designed to document how AI models like GPT-5 and Gemini distort Black history and culture through specific “hallucinations”. Rather than viewing these errors as random bugs\, the project frames them as “epistemic erasure\,” where algorithms invent authorities or omit key figures in ways that mirror historical discrimination. The dataset includes the original prompts\, the incorrect AI responses\, and human-verified annotations that identify exactly where the models failed against standard archival sources. \nBio: Sasha Richardson works at the intersection of data science\, AI\, and the humanities to design tools and systems that turn complex information into actionable insights. Currently pursuing an MA in Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center\, she is exploring how advanced analytics and AI can address equity\, resource allocation\, and decision-making challenges.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/black-knowledge-erasure-dataset/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:CUNY affiliated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T180000
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SUMMARY:From Data to Action: Addressing NYC Winter Heating Complaints with Data Visualization (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Masaru Kakutani (CUNY Graduate Center) \nThis presentation is designed to show how anyone interested in actionable policy can\, with the help of generative AI\, quickly create convincing stories. This demonstration is designed to help anyone who is interested in generating clear policy suggestions using NYC Data. A standard generative AI will assist in developing policy suggestions\, but the template ensures that the AI provides only support\, not direction or guidance\, for those interested in creating policies. \nBio: Masaru Kakutani has 45+ years of experience working in finance\, and is now a student at CUNY Graduate Center.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/from-data-to-action-addressing-nyc-winter-heating-complaints-with-data-visualization-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
CATEGORIES:CUNY affiliated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T140000
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SUMMARY:MTA Performance Metrics (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Lisa Mae Fiedler (MTA) \nThe 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 feedback to better understand features and visuals that the civic tech community would want. \nBio: Lisa Mae Fiedler manages MTA’s Open Data program.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/mta-performance-metrics-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crashcount.nyc: an open data tool for safe-streets advocacy (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Michael Freedman \nCrashcount.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 supporting safer-streets advocacy at the neighborhood and district level. This session will demonstrate how publicly available NYC datasets—particularly traffic crash data—can be transformed into clear\, actionable narratives that help communities understand where traffic violence is increasing and how it relates to policy decisions\, street design\, and enforcement. The presentation will walk through the structure of Crashcount.nyc\, the datasets it relies on\, and the design decisions behind presenting complex data in a way that is usable by advocates\, journalists\, and community members without technical backgrounds. \nBio: A successful artist and entrepreneur\, Michael James Freedman took a few years off to start\, run\, and then sell Vocabulary.com. He is now making and selling his own art at MichaelJamesFreedman.com.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/crashcount-nyc-an-open-data-tool-for-safe-streets-advocacy-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T180000
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SUMMARY:DuBois Does Data (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Mike Spade (The Knowledge House) \n35 years after slavery\, Du Bois set out to provide a definitive image of the Negro condition in the United States. His data efforts not only quantified economic parity or lack thereof\, he also focused on where people lived\, and how they lived. During the 1900 Paris Exposition\, he shared his findings with the world. But how do those findings hold up 125 years later? What has changed? Has anything stayed the same? At Du Bois Does Data\, engage with his visuals\, portraits\, and data in a multi-sensory experience. Scents derived from the life and experience of W.E.B. Playlists charting the course of Black American music from his birth to his death\, a day before the “I Have A Dream Speech.” Books celebrating his work and a first edition copy of his completed passion project\, Africana. Curated vintage stamps in his image\, portraits\, and his article in Africana will serve as activations for A/R experiences\, bringing the nostalgia into the palm of your hand. In Du Bois Does Data\, we also used Python to evaluate the condition of Black Americans 125 years after his exhibit using Census data in 6 Jupyter Notebooks. \nBio: Mike Spade is a Learning Strategist focused on bridging the gap between historical scholarship and immersive technology. With a background in instructional design and a passion for data storytelling\, this latest project represents the intersection of education\, history\, and emerging tech. Over the past few years\, the Queens native has split time working for The Knowledge House and studying with the Community Sensor Lab at the Advanced Science Research Center in Harlem. He is currently showcasing Du Bois Does Data\, the first first offering from the Radical Imagination Cultural Technology Studio.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/dubois-does-data-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gamifying Know-Your-Rights Information (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Ray Brescia (Albany Law School) \nThis presentation will explore the power of gamification and then describe one current work in progress\, an online game\, “Haunted Housing\,” that is designed in partnership with community-based advocacy organizations in New York City to educate youth\, particularly from immigrant communities\, about housing rights.  Gamification can be utilized in many other contexts–from immigrants’ rights to school discipline–and I will describe our ground-up method for developing this tool and encourage others to explore similar initiatives in other contexts. \nBio: Professor Brescia combines his experience as a public interest attorney in New York City with his scholarly interests to address economic and social inequality\, the legal and policy implications of financial crises\, how innovative legal and regulatory approaches can improve economic and community development efforts\, and the need to expand access to justice for people of low and moderate income.  He is the author of “The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions” (Cornell University Press\, 2020)\, which examines the intersection of technology and social movements\, from the American Revolution\, to the present day.  His forthcoming work\, “Lawyer Nation: The Past\, Present\, and Future of the American Legal Profession\,” due out in late 2023\, will be published by New York University Press.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/gamifying-know-your-rights-information-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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SUMMARY:VoteFeed.org (Open Data Week)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Merlin Valdez \nVoteFeed.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 in the legislative agenda. \nBio: Merlin Valdez is the founder of VoteFeed\, a digital civic engagement platform built to help constituents understand how their representatives vote and take informed action in response. Drawing on a career in education\, learning design\, and program leadership\, he created VoteFeed to make democratic participation more accessible\, grounded\, and actionable.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/votefeed-org-open-data-week/
LOCATION:NYC PIT Pop Up at The Oculus\, 185 Greenwich Street\, Shop #LL4345\, Level LL4\, New York\, NY\, 10006\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T180000
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SUMMARY:MTA Performance Metrics Feedback
DESCRIPTION:The MTA’s dashboard\, metrics.mta.info\, which is built entirely off of open data\, is going through a major redesign in 2026. MTA’s open data team will be collecting user feedback to better understand features and visuals that the civic tech community would want.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/mta-performance-metrics-feedback-2/
LOCATION:NY
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T180000
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SUMMARY:MTA Performance Metrics Feedback
DESCRIPTION:The MTA’s dashboard\, metrics.mta.info\, which is built entirely off of open data\, is going through a major redesign in 2026. MTA’s open data team will be collecting user feedback to better understand features and visuals that the civic tech community would want.
URL:https://nycpitpopup.org/event/mta-performance-metrics-feedback/
LOCATION:NY
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