I couldn’t make last night’s New York Tech Meetup in person, so I grabbed my laptop, settled into my sofa chair (after removing the cat), and watched the Livestream broadcast. Besides liking introspectr (more on them in a later post), for me the most significant part of the evening’s entertainment was the official launch of NYC BigApps 2.0 contest.
As with last year’s first-ever competition, developers work with New York City’s open-gov data sets to create applications. The “most creative, best implemented, and impactful applications”, as judged by a panel of industry experts and leaders, will compete for $20,000 in prizes. The submission period ends January 12.
So what data sets are available to developers?
There’s raw numbers from over 40 city agencies, including Parks and Recreation, Housing, Transportation, Buildings, with several contributing geo coordinates in their data stew .
City representatives last night were excited by the new agencies that have have added data this year: Environmental Protection, School Construction Authority, and Campaign Finance.
All the data, nicely organized by agency and category, can be found at the NYC DataMine.
Of note: The city is releasing real-time traffic data for the first time.
So developers, get to it!
I’m almost inspired to take a crack at this myself.
Related articles
- NYC BigApps 2.0 ( nycbigapps.com)
- NYC DataMine (nyc.gov)
- NYC Announces New Big Apps Competition (observer.com)
- introspectr
