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On Saturday March 29, 2025, BetaNYC hosted NYC School of Data 2025 at CUNY School of Law in Queens. This year’s event celebrated the 13th anniversary of the City’s transformative open data law and concluded NYC Open Data Week 2025. NYC School of Data is a community driven conference with a focus on open data, civic technology, and service design.
The main stage was webcast via ISOC.LIVE. ASL interpretation will be provided. Other tracks were recorded and made available via the BetaNYC YouTube channel. Much appreciation to Reinvent Albany for the funding support.
PROGRAM: https://nycsodata25.sched.com
01 Opening Session
Jazzy Smith – Chief of Staff, BetaNYC
Martha Norrick – Chief Analytics Officer, Office of Technology and Innovation
Hon. Kristen Gonzalez – Chair, Internet and Technology Committee, New York State Senate
Noel Hidalgo – Executive Director, BetaNYC
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02 Congestion Pricing: Data Lessons From the First Three Months
Matt Yarri – Data Science Manager, MTA
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03 Mapping Urban Ecologies: The Need for Data for Achieving Biodiverse Places
Andrew Buck – Senior Urban Planner & Technologist, VHB
Novem Auyeung – Director of Research & Monitoring, NYC Parks
Michael Treglia – Lead Scientist, NY Cities Program, The Nature Conservancy
Kirk Gordon – Associate, SCAPE
Naeema Haque – Development and Strategy Manager, BetaNYC
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04 A year of using AI @ citymeetings.nyc: what it took, how it works, and the impact it has had
Vikram Oberoi – citymeetings.nyc
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05 Congestion Pricing, As Seen Through DOT Cameras
Isaac Donis – Organizer, Transit Techies
Tim Harris – Founder, timotheus
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06 Machine Readable Laws: How LLMs can help democratize NYC Administrative Code
Jordan Shapiro – Founder, JD Digitalization
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07 Pulling Out All the Stops for a Stop Sign: Lessons From a Long and Winding Road
Roisin Ford
Josh Sucher – Creative Technologist & UX Researcher
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08 Ranked Choice Voting in the Big Apple
Kathryn Agnas – Data Scientist, NYC Campaign Finance Board
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09 Turnout for What: An Exploration of Voter Engagement Using Open Data
Malika Mohan
Jen Yeaton
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10 Intro to NYCDB: Exploring NYC Open Data with the Housing Data Coalition
Maxwell Austensen
Steve Giordano
Ry Zhu
Itzamna Huerta
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11 Creating a Multimodal Urban Planning Simulation for Diverse Publics using NYC Open Data
Katie McMillan Culp – Chief Learning Officer, New York Hall of Science
Jenna Lang – Content Producer, Trivium Interactive
Andrew Kittredge – Civic Innovation Lab Director, BetaNYC
Amelia Merker – Exhibits Manager, NYSCI
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12 Navigating the NYC Open Data Infrastructure for Community-Based Organizations: A conversation
Yuki Mitsuda – Manager, Analytics and Data Strategy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development
Kevin Lee – Director of Data Analytics, Breaking Ground
Angelica Bravo – Director of Data, Evaluation, and Learning, University Settlement
Glenda Perez – Senior Research Scientist, NYC CIDI
Lauri Goldkind – Professor, Fordham
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13 Analyzing Flood Insurance Claim Trends in New York City: Insights from FEMA’s NFIP Data
Mark Bauer – Data Scientist
Tiffany Cousins – Spatial Data Scientist & Researcher, Cousins Analytics LLC
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14 Best of the MTA Open Data Challenge
Lisa Mae Fiedler – Open Data Manager, MTA
Are NYC Subway Stops Ready for Every Student? – Huda Ayaz, Olivia Fratangelo, Taseen Islam
The Museum of Transversal Art – Bianca Ng
Lately on the MTA – Noah Gunther
If you Give a Rat a MetroCard – Will Meyers
Subway Stories – Jediah Katz, Marc Zitelli
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15 Good Cause Eviction Screener: A data-driven approach to bolster tenant rights in NYC
Corey Brown – Design Lead, JustFix
Ki Wan Sim – Senior Software Engineer, JustFix
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16 Learning about the NYC Urban Forest through the Latest High-Resolution Tree Canopy Data
Uma Bhandaram – Deputy Chief, NYC Parks & Recreation
Michael Treglia – Lead Scientist, NY Cities Program, The Nature Conservancy
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17 OSCUR: A Platform for Understanding Urban Data – Demonstration and Introduction
Graham Dove – Assistant Professor, NYU
Fabio Miranda – Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
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18 Using Data for Budget Transparency with IBO: Stormwater Fees, Police Overtime Trends, and the State of NYC’s Public Education
Valerie Gudino – Budget & Policy Analyst, Public Safety, NYC IBO
Emma Gossett – Budget & Policy Analyst, NYC IBO
Jordan Paige – Lead Environmental Budget & Policy Analyst, NYC IBO
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19 Learn NYC Zoning with Open Data, Paper Models, and Augmented Reality!
Nick Kaufmann – Community Manager, InCitu
Pablo Sepúlveda – Zoning Lead, zlvas
Ziv Schneider – Head of Design, InCitu
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20 Beyond the Data: The Tech Driving City Council Programs
Johnathan Chei – Assistant Deputy Director, Web Development Unit
Alaa Moussawi – Chief Data Scientist
Frank Perez – Community Engagement Division
Brad J. Reid – Deputy Director, Legislative Division
Yogi Rosario-Doran – Community Engagement Division
Ahmad Zaki – Full-stack Developer, Legislative Division
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21 A Conversation with MTA Data & Analytics
Andrew Kuziemko – Deputy Chief, Data & Analytics
Preksha Agarwal – Product Manager
Ben Tannenwald – Senior Data Scientist
Gayan Seneviratna – Senior Data Scientist
Lisa Mae Fiedler – Open Data Manager
Hannah Spierer – Senior Manager, Policy & Coordination, MTA
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22 Defending Affordable and Stable Housing: Progress and Problems
Ian G. Williams – Doctoral Student, PhD Program in Social Welfare, CUNY
Sam O’Hana
Holden Taylor
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23 FloodNet – Event based flood data for climate resilience
Charlie Mydlarz – Research Associate Professor, NYU CUSP
Bea Steers – Embedded Developer, FloodNet NYC
Ricardo Toledo-Crow – Director, Next Generation Environmental Sensor Lab, CUNY ASRC
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24 How Crosswalk Labs Maps Nationwide Neighborhood-Level CO2 Emissions Data and Benchmarks to NYC Building Energy and Water Data
Danny Sheehan – Director of Solutions Architecture, Crosswalk Labs
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25 Open Data in Action: Tracking New York City’s Progress Toward Closing Rikers Island
Ashley Santiago – Freedom Agenda
Elizabeth Johnson – Data Scientist
Richie Lin – Data Manager, Data Collaborative for Justice
Michael Rempel – Executive Director, Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College
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26 Where does NYC Garbage Go? It is now possible to know!
Matthew Eshed – Master of Environmental Management, Systems Engineer, Sustainability Specialist
Andrew Goh – Data Analyst, ex-Wayfair
Samantha MacBride – Assistant Professor, Baruch College, CUNY
Jane Wu
Shen Xin – Communications Chair, Urban Planner
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27 Keeping your data safe in 2025 (and beyond!)
Davis Erin Anderson – Senior Digital Security Trainer, Freedom of the Press Foundation
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28 In Code We Trust: Volunteering and Careers in Government & Public Interest Technology
Abbey Kos – Board Member, Technologists for the Public Good
Noel Hidalgo – Executive Director, BetaNYC
Martha Norrick – Chief Analytics Officer, Office of Technology and Innovation
Gabe Paley – Assistant Secretary for Technology, Office of Governor Kathy Hochul
Jai Rodgers – Talent Community Manager, U.S. Digital Response
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29 NYC Public Space: Building a mobile map of 3,000 public spaces in New York City
Chris Whong – Civic Hacker O.G.
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30 Urban Risk Index: a NYC Index for Urban Hazards
Te Du – Risk Analysis Specialist, NYC Emergency Management
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31 Beyond Numbers: Understanding NYC’s Budget
Emily Pisano – Fiscal Policy Analyst, FPWA
Brad Martin – Senior Fiscal Policy Analyst, FPWA
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32 Let’s Build a NYC Public Interest Tech Lab – A Visioning Game
Afsana Siddika – Graduate Student, Queens College (CUNY)
Kathleen Cumiskey – Director, CUNY Public Interest Tech Lab
Effie MacLachlan – Director of Grants & Research Programs, CUNY
Ian G. Williams – Doctoral Student, CUNY Graduate Center
Anthoni Garcia – Lab Manager, CUNY PIT Lab
Raj Korpan – Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY
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33 NYC Urban Heat Portal: workshop to leverage data for heat resilience advocacy and planning
Mehdi Heris – Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY
Lun Hung – Front-end Developer Lab Associate, BetaNYC
Andrew Kittredge – Civic Innovation Lab Director, BetaNYC
Ashley Louie – Former Chief Technology Officer, BetaNYC
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34 Search Every Word on NYC Streets
Yufeng Zhao
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