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Good day, Open Data Week friends,

What a great start to the festival! Yesterday we celebrated the NYC Open Data Law's ninth birthday online and on the streets at incredible events. If you missed them, check out some of the buzz in this email.

Here is what's lined up for today:
 

TODAY'S EVENTS

12:30pm Engaging with the WhatsOpenEV.com mapRSVP
🗺️ 🍔 The East Village Community Coalition will host socially-distanced community outreach events on the Ave B Open Street to promote the use of the WhatsOpenEV.com map

2pm The Power and Peril of Geolocation Data RSVP 
🕵️‍♀️📍 In this session, we will explore the growing power of geolocation data, enabling tracking of thousands, even millions of people at a time. Then ...

5pm Data Dialogues – Presented by Data Through Design, Featuring an Opera Performance, and in Partnership with The US Census Bureau RSVP 
Performance, and in Partnership with The US Census Bureau — RSVP 
💬📈 Join us for a collaborative exploration of the artwork in DxD 2021’s exhibition and how it intersects with our diverse personal histories, perceptions, values, and identities.

All Day: DxD 2021: Ground Truth ExhibitionRSVP 
🎨📈 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: Hear, BeforeRSVP 
👂🏻🔺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: 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

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

Click to view the FULL program!
Curator Spotlight:

Grant Pezeshki
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Grant serves as the Director of Public Data Engagement at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he demystifies Environmental Health data for New York City. This year, Grant joined us in the Covid19, Health, and Environment domain where he has helped event organizers to the finish line. Thank you for your support Grant, we appreciate it! Be sure to check out the Environmental Health Data Portal and explore the work the DOHMH has done!

A few highlights from yesterday's NEW YORK ALIVE and Shadow Tag events...

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

  • ☕️ Join us each morning at 9am for virtual breakfasts. Grab your morning coffee, settle into a comfy seat and chat with special guests to start the day.
  • 👋 Meet and mingle at Happy Half Hours each evening at 5pm. Hang out with us and meet with other Open Data Week participants in a fun 2d virtual environment. 
  • 🎓 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.
  • 🦊 Have you met our friends and allies at #MozFest? Join us in building a better, healthier internet and more Trustworthy AI. The 2-week event kicks off tomorrow! We think you will enjoy this event
We're so excited to see everyone sharing their experiences online! Join the dialogue on social media with the hashtag #opendataweek and tag @BetaNYC and @NYCAnalytics. You can also say hello to us in the BetaNYC Slack (join #opendataweek channel!). 

Here’s to a great week ahead!

— The NYC Open Data Week Team

🤓 NYC Open Data Fact of the Day

Did you know the first Public Data Directory was published in 1993 by the NYC Commission on Public Information and Communication (COPIC). It described the computerized databases maintained by City agencies.

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