Syracuse Open Data Day (2024)
Details
Come join the City of Syracuse for our 2nd Open Data Day where you learn about what information the City of Syracuse puts on the Open Data Portal, participate in breakout sessions to learn industry standard tools to access and visualize open data, and create your own project to compete against others.
The contest will be a month-long data challenge, where the featured focus area will be in the area of Healthy Housing: Quality, Safety, & Accessibility. The project pitches and judging will happen in the afternoon of November 2nd.
Program
9:00am- Registration Opens
9:30-10:00am- Breakfast and Networking
10:00-10:30am- Greeting and Kickoff
10:30-11:25am- Breakout Session #1
- Amy Brombos: Utilizing Census Data Tools
- Rachel Ivy Clarke: Data Driven Community Quilting
11:30-12:25pm- Breakout Session #2
- Housing Panel with Latoya Allen of Home Headquarters, Liam Kirst - Southside Community Growth Found, Ben Lockwood - Housing Visions, and Leah Russell - Center for Justice Innovation
- Mark King and Jon Moss: Overview of projects made with Open Data
- Srividya Ramasubramanian: Data Justice Frameworks
- Saptarshi Lahiri: Using Public Data with Artwork
12:30-1:00pm- Lunch
1:00-1:50pm- Breakout Session #3
- Peter Wilcoxen: Assessing Parcel-Level Flood Risks in Wayne County
- Amanda Darcangelo and Ashley Gingeleski: Analysis of housing and homelessness trends across the US over time
- Gabriel Davila-Campos & Jason Scharf: Data-Driven Resilience, how youth can leverage data for social change
2:00-3:00pm- Data Project Pitches
3:00-4:00pm- Community Tech & Career Fair
4:00-4:30pm- Winners Announced & Event Closing
Prizes
For the data project contest, the prizes for the winning teams will be the following amounts:
1st Place - $1,000
2nd Place - $500
3rd Place - $300
Wipro Branded Prize ($500)
Wipro is awarding a branded prize at this year’s Civic Data challenge. Their prize is pertaining to sustainable and net zero housing. Net zero means that a building releases no net carbon. Please refer to https://data.syr.gov/pages/open-data-day-2024 for full information.
Who can participate?
Anyone with an interest in open data for the public good can take part of the Civic Data Challenge. Since the event is in person, the teams have to have at least one person present in person at the Open Data Day event.
Data Challenge Focus Area
The theme for this year's event is Healthy Housing: Quality, Safety, & Accessibility. These data projects have to use at least one dataset from Open Data Syracuse but are welcome to use additional data sources. Some relevant information and sources that teams can use are listed below.
Internal Datasets:
- Syracuse Rental Registry
- Code Violations
- Vacant Properties
- Permit Requests
- Assessment Final Tax Roll (2024)
- Syracuse Parcel Map (2024)
External Data Resources:
- [RealEstateAPI.com](https://www.realestateapi.com/)
- RealEstateAPI has given our teams access to some of their API's for this contest. If you are interested in getting an API token, email our team at: [opendata@syr.gov](mailto:opendata@syr.gov)
- NYS Unified Court System - Statewide Landlord Tenant Eviction Dashboard
- CNY Vitals Pro (Source of data and visualizations for CNY Neighborhood topics)
- Zillow (Real Estate Housing data and API's)
- [Apartments.com API](https://api.apartments.com/v1)
Judging Criteria
- Creativity - How are you bringing a unique idea into this challenge
- Wow factor - Is this a creative project and idea
- Execution - How well executed is this project, realizing it is only over a month.
- Information value - How informative is the project
- Multidisciplinary project - We encourage interdisciplinary created by teams with diverse backgrounds
Project Submissions
Projects need to be submitted to the Open Data Day Devpost page by 1:45 PM on Saturday Nov. 2nd, 2024.
Please refer to https://data.syr.gov for announcements and more information.
Syracuse Open Data Day (2024)