Liberating Data from NYC Property Tax Bills
Property Tax constitutes the single biggest source of revenue for the New York City Government, accounting for approximately $22.5 Billion dollars in …
Granular Budget Data for NYC
Here’s some granular data on the NYC operating budget. First, take a look at this supporting schedules publication for the Fiscal Year …
Scraping NYC Daycare Data… Again
A year ago, some Civic Hackers in NYC were interested in making a map of New York City Daycare facilities to help parents …
This Ugly Map Got a Lot of Attention Today
Be careful what you release into the wilds of the internet! A few days ago, mostly out of curiosity, I created the …
A Chrome Extension to Inject NYC Subway Data into streeteasy.com
I love streeteasy.com. The site has everything for the NYC apartment-seeker: High quality listings, uber-granular searching, discussion forums, and lots of great …
Anatomy of a Civic Hack: Freeing Baltimore’s Real-time Bus Data
This morning, the appropriately named transit app TransitApp released a blog post on medium, entitled “How we saved Baltimore $600,000 in one day“. …
My First Data Art: NYC Taxi Defrag
In my data visualization NYC Taxis: A Day in the Life, there is a D3 chart at the bottom of the screen …
Recreating the Union Square Clock with Javascript
On 14th street, just south of Union Square there’s a great big digital clock on the side of a building… well, the first …