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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!

Register for tickets: < https://ti.to/betanyc/nycsodata26 >

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] >.

Saturday March 28, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
Analyzing spatial data using GIS tools is the most accurate way to find patterns in NYC Open Data that you may not have been able to find any other way. Then, visualizing the results of that analysis on a map is an effective way for others to experience and understand these patterns in an intuitive way. In this session, we will go step-by-step, combining the power of GIS technology with other industry standard statistical tools to find and examine the correlations, causes, and effects of spatial phenomena within communities and across the city. We will do this using Esri's free ArcGIS online mapping and analysis tools, along with Jupyter Notebooks. We will also be demonstrating the use of NYC OTI's new "Locator" set of RESTful web services for street address processing and place locating:  https://api-portal.nyc.gov/api-details#api=arcgis-enterprise&operation=Root
Speakers
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Jim Barry

Solution Engineer, Esri
Solution Engineer, Esri
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Tim Calabrese

Project manager, Esri
I'm a project manager in Esri's Professional Services team based in NYC, so I work on projects that leverage Geographic Information Systems to solve complex problems with Local government agencies.
Saturday March 28, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
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