To him, the earth’s surface beyond the pavement was simply a moving tableau — a gauzy, unreal backdrop for his high-speed travel. He was spatially crippled. The writer Rebecca Solnit nails this mind-set perfectly in her book “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”: “In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.”
Month: November 2013
NYC Open Data Plan Dashboard
this is NYC’s Open Data Catalogue compliance dashboard. despite being several months late, super cool.
“You can’t beat politics with new technology all the time. Sometimes you have to actually make sure that politics are in line with what people want. A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviours towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting,” Sunde told Wired.co.uk in a Skype interview.
One of the tenets at Google[x], she said, is to offer two-thirds “yes and” feedback and one-third “yes but” feedback; in other words, people aren’t supposed to say no, and they’re not supposed to go overboard with their criticism. Another is to move quickly. Apparently the first prototype of Google Glass was built in about 1.5 hours. Yet another is bringing together diverse minds, meaning that she wants Google to be “the best company for women and minorities” not to mention “gays, lesbians, different races, different walks of life.”
ACRIS datasets in the NYC Data Catalogue
Next Wed, BetaNYC and NYU Furman Center are teaming up to do a night on ACRIS data. Join us and get down and dirty with one of NYC’s richest datasets.
This is a listing of the ACRIS data set I am able to pull from the NYC’s Data Catalogue.
ACRIS – Air Rights City Government dof, acris land records
Property Details for Personal Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Air-Rights/cxkz-3jrg
ACRIS – Country Codes City Government dof, acris land records
ACRIS Countries mapping for Codes in the ACRIS Real and Personal Parties Property Datasets
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Country-Codes/j2iz-mwzu
ACRIS – Document Control Codes City Government dof, acris land records
ACRIS Document Type and Class Code mappings for Codes in the ACRIS Real and Personal Property Master Datasets
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Document-Control-Codes/7isb-wh4c
ACRIS – Personal Property Legals City Government dof, acris land records
Property Details for Personal Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Personal-Property-Legals/uqqa-hym2
ACRIS – Personal Property Master City Government dof, acris land records
Document Details for Personal Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Personal-Property-Master/sv7x-dduq
ACRIS – Personal Property Parties City Government dof, acris land records
Party Names for Personal Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Personal-Property-Parties/nbbg-wtuz
ACRIS – Personal Property References City Government dof, acris land records
Document Remarks for Personal Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Personal-Property-References/6y3e-jcrc
ACRIS – Personal Property Remarks City Government dof, acris land records
Document Remarks for Personal Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Personal-Property-Remarks/fuzi-5ks9
ACRIS – Property Types Codes City Government dof, acris land records
ACRIS State mapping for Codes in the ACRIS Real and Personal Property Legals Datasets
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Property-Types-Codes/94g4-w6xz
ACRIS – Real Property Legals City Government dof, acris land records
Property Details for Real Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Real-Property-Legals/8h5j-fqxa
ACRIS – Real Property Master City Government dof, acris land records
Document Details for Real Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Real-Property-Master/bnx9-e6tj
ACRIS – Real Property Parties City Government dof, acris land records
Party Names for Real Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Real-Property-Parties/636b-3b5g
ACRIS – Real Property References City Government dof, acris land records
Document Cross References for Real Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Real-Property-References/pwkr-dpni
ACRIS – Real Property Remarks City Government dof, acris land records
Document Remarks for Real Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Real-Property-Remarks/9p4w-7npp
ACRIS – State Codes City Government dof, acris land records
ACRIS State mapping for Codes in the ACRIS Real and Personal Parties Property Datasets
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-State-Codes/5c9e-33xj
ACRIS – Subterranean Rights City Government dof, acris land records
Property Details for Personal Property Related Documents Recorded in ACRIS
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Subterranean-Rights/56kn-pnny
ACRIS – UCC Collateral Codes City Government dof, acris land records
ACRIS Collateral Type mapping for Codes in the ACRIS Personal Property Master Dataset
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-UCC-Collateral-Codes/q9kp-jvxv
Although traffic fatalities have been on the decline overall, they are almost intersecting with the city’s homicide rate. As of the end of September, there were 203 traffic fatalities in the five boroughs – just 39 fewer than the number of murders in the same period.
Nov 2013 – BetaTalk: Open NY, the state’s data team, & NYC Code for America Fellows
Nov’s 2013 BetaTalk: Open NY, the state’s data team, & NYC Code for America Fellows.
This is going to be a really exciting night! Two great teams who have two amazing stories!
For the night, we’re going to start off with the Open NY team introducing themselves and talking about their goals, short term objectives, and then do a bit of q/a. Then, we will hear from NYC’s Code for America fellows. They will talk about their project and what it was like to be a CfA fellow. Afterward, both teams will be around for personal questions.
Schedule: Doors open at 6:30. Event starts promptly at 7:00 PM.
Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
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Meet Open New York, NY State’s Open Data team.
Come and meet the the team that powers New York’s Open Data Portal. This team is bringing together local, state and federal data in one place. Additionally, they are looking to be a platform to open and liberate municipal data across New York.
Code for America Fellows – New York City.
In 2013, The City of New York partnered with Code for America to enlist a team of fellows to build technology to address criminal justice issues. The fellowship was sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of the Criminal Justice Coordinator and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Support and funding were provided by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and Blue Ridge Foundation.
Thanks to our hosts DoSomething.org
DoSomething.org is the country’s largest not-for-profit for young people and social change. We have 2,215,655 members (and counting!) who kick ass on causes they care about. Bullying. Animal cruelty. Homelessness. Cancer. The list goes on. DoSomething.org spearheads national campaigns so 13- to 25-year-olds can make an impact – without ever needing money, an adult, or a car. Over 2.4 million people took action through DoSomething.org in 2012. Why? Because apathy sucks.