Over the last year, BetaNYC started hosting hacknights to empower the civic hacker community. In that time, we heard quite a bit of feedback from developers on demystifying datasets and government practice. Yet, we struggled to find the right away to connect developers, designers, and data scientist to each other.
After some feedback, we are launching a developers forum. Without putting on too many rules, the developer’s forum is where you go to get tough questions answered and have much longer conversations on technology solutions, data, etc… Consider it a 24/7 hacknight.
You can join BetaNYC’s developers forum at http://bit.ly/betanyc-dev
GO FORTH AND HACK!
– BetaNYC Leadership
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Welcoming Chis Whong as BetaNYC’s newest co-captain!
Welcoming Chis Whong as BetaNYC’s newest co-captain!
Today, Code for America announced its 2013 Brigade class. I’m happy to announce our Chris Whong will be joining us as a BetaNYC co-captain! This is a great day for us.
From BetaNYC:
It has been six hot months since we changed our name. In that time, we’ve been ironing out an update to our Purpose, Values, Goals, Mission, and Tools.For now, this is the language we are working with. If you would like to add your comments or tweaks, visit our GitHub and comment away.
Visualizing NYC’s OpenData
Chris M Whong, BetaNYC’s co-Captian, visualized the 1100+ open datasets made available by New York City. This is a force-directed graph generated with the charting library d3.js. NYC’s open data portal runs on the Socrata platform*, and this visualization was created using the “dataset of datasets” and the Socrata Open Data API (SODA).
Chris writes “Why? The point is to show the scale of the portal, and to illustrate which datasets have user-created views. In the future, it would be great to dynamically size the circles by the popularity of the datasets.”
* Chris is employed by Socrata
** GitHub Link