Category: Update
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Databook Update 9: School & School District Profiles
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…
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Databook Update 8: Get Normalized Data from our New API
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…
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Databook Update 7: The City Record Online Remix
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,…
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Databook Update 6: New “Civil Service Titles” Section Added
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…
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Databook Update 4 – October 2021
Design and usability improvements: Connected Community Districts to Community Board Agency Profiles, enabling users to easily click from one to the other. Added ability for user on /districts page to search an address to find its districts. Improvements to agency browse, agency profile and capital project profile design.
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Databook Update 3 – September 2021
Add Districts Section where users can select district type to see district boundaries, and then click a district to see it’s Databook data. Added District Types Community Districts (CBs), Council Districts (CDs) and Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) Associate mapped Capital Projects with their corresponding districts so they can be browsed by district. Add rollups to…
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Databook Update 2 – August 2021
Improve Capital Projects with Summaries and Maps Add summary box to Capital Project Browse and Capital Project Agency Browse views Add maps to all three views with pins with info highlights about the projects. Add forms enabling users to submit information about individual projects Systemwide update to menu structure and breadcrumbs”
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Databook Update 1 – July 2021
We added Capital Projects section to the Databook. This involved adding new views: Browse all Capital Projects, sort them by budget size and borough, filter by Borough and Category, search with text. Browse all Capital Projects of a specific agency, sort, filter and search them. View an individual Capital Project Profile, its profile info, changes…