Syracuse Open Data Day

Come join the City of Syracuse for our 1st 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 to win prizes.

Sign up below. It's free, it's fun, and you will have food! The event is on Saturday November 4th from 10:00am - 4:30pm, and attendees are free to any or all of the sessions.

The contest will be a month long data challenge. The project pitches and judging will happen in the afternoon of November 4th.

The theme for the 2023 Data Challenge is transportation. We have compiled a list of relevant City datasets that may be used with this project as well as some external datasets or API’s that may be interesting for participants to explore. This can be viewed at: [https://data.syr.gov/pages/open-data-day ](https://data.syr.gov/pages/open-data-day)

*In order to be an eligible data project submission, a data project has to use at least one dataset from Open Data Syracuse, but contestants are welcome to use additional data sources as well.*

For updated schedule information, refer to https://data.syr.gov/pages/open-data-day for announcements and more information.

## Agenda:

9:30 - 10am Breakfast & Networking
10:00 - 10:30am Greeting & Kickoff
10:30 - 11:25am Break Out Session #1

• Main Conference Room
  Amanda Darcangelo and Ashley Gingeleski, Salt City Data Community
  Everyday Analytics - Using data from your smart devices for analysis
• 2nd Floor Computer Lab
  Scott Stanton, GISP at Ramboll
  Creating an online map with the Syracuse Open Data Portal
• 3rd Floor Conference Room
  Dilpreet Singh Arora, Technical Lead at National Grid
  Surveillance Technology Data Viz with Tableau

11:30 - 12:25pm Break Out Session #2

• Main Conference Room
  Dana Chermesh-Reshef, Founder & CEO of inCitu
  Democratizing City Planning through on-site Augmented Reality: the use of AR in engaging residents in the process of urban change
• 2nd Floor Computer Lab
  Nicholas Johnson, Founder and Lead Data Scientist/Analyst at Ataviz Consulting
  Visualizing Syracuse Public Art Data with Tableau
• 3rd Floor Conference Room
  Prof. Mike Fudge, Program Director at SU's School of Information Studies (iSchool)
  Open Data with Python

12:30 - 1:00pm Lunch

1:00 - 1:55pm Break Out Session #3

• Main Conference Room
  Andrew Frasier, Transportation Analyst at Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Commission (SMTC)
  TBD
• 2nd Floor Computer Lab
  Mark King, Data Consultant. Project Consultant for the Central New York Community Foundation
  Open Data with Flourish
• 3rd Floor Conference Room
  Jason Scharf, Data Program Manager with the City of Syracuse Open Data Syracuse 101

2:00 - 3:15pm Data Project Pitches

3:15 - 3:30pm Judge Deliberation

3:30 - 4:00pm Winners Announced & Event Closing

4:00 - 4:30pm Coffee, Snacks and Informal Networking

## How to enter the Data Challenge:

You must make your submission to the Open Data Syracuse DevPost site on Saturday November 4th, 2023 by 1:50 PM.