Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

STORYTELLING WITH OPEN DATA: A TOOL FOR CIVIC IMPACT

Presented by WagnerTech, Bridge: Students for Social Innovation
Date: 3/04/2016
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: The Puck Building, Rice Conference Room / Newman Reception Area
295 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012-9604 map

Join WagnerTech and Bridge: Students for Social Innovation for a panel discussion on using open data as a tool for civic and social impact!

Since 2012, New York City has made over 1,200 data sets available to the public on the NYC Open Data portal. But what do these numbers actually tell us? What can we use them for?

Since their release, individuals and organizations have used these freely-available information sources to tell creative stories about New York City, painting compelling portraits of urban life from the information collected by the government. Others have used data sets to affect public policy, by drawing connections between different human behaviors.

Panelists will include:

- Ben Wellington, the blogger/statistician behind the beloved open data blog I Quant NY and assistant professor at the Pratt Institute

- Meredith Broussard, data journalist and assistant professor in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University

Panelists will share their storytelling approaches, techniques, and cases.