FREE PLUTO, a #BetaTalk on one of NYC's most valuable dataset.

FREE PLUTO (http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml)!!!

We are not talking about the planetoidial mass at the end of the Solar System. We are talking about one of NYC's most valuable datasets. After years of advocacy, NYC's Department of City Planning has liberated the city's land use and geographic data at the tax lot level. (Read about it here. (http://codeforamerica.org/2013/07/25/epic-win-for-nycs-open-data-community-pluto-is-free/))

For this BetaTalk, Steven Romalewski (http://www.urbanresearch.org/about/people/steven-romalewski) (@SR_spatial (http://twitter.com/SR_spatial)), CUNY, and Jessie Braden (http://prattcenter.net/staff/jessie-braden) (@JessieBraden (http://twitter.com/JessieBraden)), PRATT, two long standing NYC Civic Hackers/Mappers, will send us to the far reaches of the PLUTO data and show us the magic in the stars.

Download PLUTO (http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/applbyte.shtml), bring your laptop, and we will break up into small groups to explore PLUTO.

Additionally, we will have http://Exversion.com (Jacek Grebski and Marianne Bellotti) talking about their platform and how to access PLUTO programmatically / via an API (http://exversion.com/data/view/94NIJEJYHH6QRS2/pluto-nyc-all-boroughs).

Schedule

• 6:30 PM - Doors Open
• 7:00 PM - Event starts promptly* 7:20 PM - Steven Romalewski, CUNY, and Jessie Braden, PRATT, tell the story of liberation and walk us though the PLUTO Data.* 7:50 PM - Exversion.com's API* 8:00 PM - PLUTO Questions and Answers.
• Till 9:15ish - Hacking and small group discussion.

Next week, we will dedicate our #CivicHackNight to PLUTO (https://www.meetup.com/betanyc/events/132670102/).

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NOTE: We will have some soda and light finger food on hand. Feel free to BYOB or dinner.

This night's #BetaTalk is graciously hosted by StreetEasy (http://streeteasy.com/), New York City’s go-to source for the most accurate residential real estate information available. You can access their data via the StreetEasy API (http://streeteasy.com/nyc/api/info).