Author: WeGov Team

New York City has 1,003,629 students in its public school system. These students go to 2,190 schools. 1,907 of these schools are managed by the Department of Education and 283 are run by charter schools. There are 13,054 capital projects planned for these schools by the School Construction Authority with a projected cost of $15.9…

Databook has always been two projects in one. The first project is our data pipeline that collects, normalizes and republishes normalized NYC Open Data so that other people can use it. The second is to build a general purpose app that makes this information understandable and useful for the public. In the beginning of the…

New York City’s “City Record” is the official “journal” where city agencies publish news and event information. This info includes public hearings, procurement announcements, contract awards, rule changes, auctions, personnel changes and more. We’ve used the city’s open data version, which is updated daily, to integrate The City Record’s contents into the WeGov data system,…

New York City government has a workforce over 300,000 people, and that workforce is structured by a system of “Civil Service Titles”. These titles define the job roles and salary of every city employee as well as the skills people need to earn that title. This month we launched a new section called Titles where…