Happy International Open Data Day and welcome to NYC Open Data Week 2021, friends!! 

Thank you for joining us in a year unlike any other. We are so excited to see you throughout the week. Here is the inside scoop for today's festivities:

TODAY'S EVENTS

12pm: Data Analysis Using Python: A Beginner’s Guide Featuring NYC Open Data — RSVP 
🐍💻 NYC Open Data provides a treasure-trove of information - all publicly available with a click of a button. This showcase will go through four notebooks that demonstrate key aspects of data analysis...

1pm: NEW YORK ALIVE! — RSVP
💃🏞️ Join artist Jen Ray and data designer Jason Forrest as they present a not-entirely-serious exploration of the urges, needs, and desires of New York City residents. Outdoor event at 1pm and 5pm. Meet at Avenue B between 7th and 8th Streets by Tompkins Sq. Park. 

1pm: Opening Educational Resources for Law — RSVP 
⚖️📚 This workshop will start with a short presentation to introduce you to open educational resources (OER) for law and how they are transforming legal education and practice.

1:30pm: Shadow Tag — RSVP 
📊🖍 Join artist Cindy Stockton Moore in an interactive, participatory experience with tangible graphs and sidewalk chalk to explore local data. The project aims to reveal the unseen in the OpenCity data — data that impacts children specifically. This event is outdoor and child-friendly — please bring your kids!

4pm: NEW YORK ALIVE! — RSVP
💃🏞️ Join artist Jen Ray and data designer Jason Forrest as they present a not-entirely-serious exploration of the urges, needs, and desires of New York City residents. Outdoor event at 1pm and 5pm. Meet at Avenue B between 7th and 8th Streets by Tompkins Sq. Park. 

All Day The Subway Above Ground – Listening Session — RSVP 
🚇🎶 Listen to Brian Foo’s data sonification piece en route to Shadow Tag and New York Alive! This project generates music based on income data from the census blocks one travels beneath while riding the subway…

All Day: Hear, Before — RSVP 
👂🏻🔺Hear, Before is a distributed, geolocated audio experience to overhear the collective experience of moving around New York. Use your phone to experience a combination of...

All Day: DxD 2021: Ground Truth Exhibition — RSVP 
🎨📈 Data Through Design featuring works that creatively analyze, interpret and interrogate data made available in NYC’s Open Data Portal. The theme for this year’s DxD exhibition is Ground Truth: the insight we receive from being ”on the ground,”...

All Day: Travels through XYZ: Unearthing Historic NYC’s Hidden Metadata — RSVP
⛏️🗺️ An exploratory interactive time-travel narrative through select milestones in NYC’s early 400-year history. Utilizing select historical maps that form the basis of choice and exploration

As you plan your week, here are a few events you shouldn't miss:

• ☕️ Meet and mingle with the Open Data Week community! Join us at virtual breakfasts each weekday morning. Grab your morning coffee, settle into a comfy seat and chat with special guests to start the day. And, in the evenings, gather with us in a virtual space to say hello and meet new people.
• 🎓 New to NYC Open Data? Join us at Intro to NYC Open Data classes with Civic Innovation Fellows, who have been training at BetaNYC this semester to become NYC Open Data Ambassadors. 
• 🖼 Data Through Design! Data Through Design’s 2021 exhibit is officially open! Visit the virtual gallery website to check out the art work and meet the artists behind the scenes.
• 🦠 Learn about Covid19 data with NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. RSVP to hear about their challenges and opportunities to improve data communication and access.

— The NYC Open Data Week Team