Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the practices and policies around open data, technology, and service design. Hosted by BetaNYC at CUNY School of Law, this year’s conference concludes NYC’s Open Data Week 2026 and is the TENTH edition of both SoData and Open Data Week!
2026 is bigger than ever with 40+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community!
Day 1: the classic NYC School of Data conference, with programming across 12 rooms during 4 session blocks.
Day 2: NEW in 2026 – UnSchool of Data! The unconference agenda is created together on the day, with attendee pitches at the top of the day. Select sessions have been pre-seeded by BetaNYC to kick things off.
Our venue is accessible and content is all-ages friendly! If you have accessibility questions or needs, please email us at < [email protected] >.
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Join Claudia Berger from the NYC Open Data team for this hands-on survey where data users of all types, from professionals who use data in their day-to-day work to people with a personal interest in data, can give feedback on NYC Open Data’s documentation. Through activities and small group discussions, participants will have the chance to assess a variety of documentation around a mystery dataset. The feedback gathered at this session will be used to identify gaps in the current documentation, such as the data dictionaries and dataset primer pages, as well as identify areas that could be explained better or where more guidance is needed. Participants will be able to use their experiences working with data to help shape our ongoing work of strengthening resources on Open Data.
If you have used Open Data, or data in general, before in any capacity, your thoughts are welcome!
