Syracuse Open Data Day 2024

Next date: Saturday, November 02, 2024 | 10:00 AM to Saturday, November 02, 2024 | 04:30 PM

Come join the City of Syracuse for our 2nd Open Data Day where you learn about what information the City of Syracuse puts on the Open Data Portal, participate in breakout sessions to learn industry standard tools to access and visualize open data, and create your own project to compete against others.

Sign up at the link on the right. It's free, it's fun, and you will have food! The event is on Saturday November 2nd from 10:00am - 4:30pm, and attendees are free to any or all of the sessions.

The contest will be a month-long data challenge, where the featured focus area will be in the area of Healthy Housing: Quality, Safety, & Accessibility. The project pitches and judging will happen in the afternoon of November 2nd.

For updated schedule information, refer to data.syr.gov for announcements and more information. 

Schedule:

9:30 - 10am Breakfast & Networking

10:00 - 10:30am Greeting & Kickoff

10:30 - 11:25am Break Out Session #1

11:30 - 12:25pm Break Out Session #2

12:30 - 1:00pm Lunch

1:00 - 1:55pm Break Out Session #3

2:00 - 3:00pm Data Project Pitches

3:00 - 4:00pm Tech Career Fair/Networking/Judge Deliberation

4:00 - 4:30pm Winners Announced & Event Closing

Prizes

For the data project contest, the prizes for the winning teams will be the following amounts:

1st Place - $1,000

2nd Place - $500

3rd Place - $300

Who can participate

Anyone with an interest in open data for the public good can take part of the Civic Data Challenge. Since the event is in person, the teams have to have at least one person present in person at the Open Data Day event.

Data Challenge Focus Area

The theme for this years event is Healthy Housing: Quality, Safety, & Accessibility.  These data projects have to use at least one dataset from Open Data Syracuse, but are welcome to use additional data sources.  Some relevant information and sources that teams can use are listed below.

Internal Datasets:

• Syracuse Rental Registry
• Code Violations
• Vacant Properties
• Permit Requests
• Assessment Final Tax Roll (2024)
• Syracuse Parcel Map (2024)

External Data Resources:

• NYS Unified Court System - Statewide Landlord Tenant Eviction Dashboard
• CNY Vitals Pro (Source of data and visualizations for CNY Neighborhood topics) 
• Zillow (Real Estate Housing data and API's)
• Apartments.com API
• Syracuse Housing Study & Strategy
  
  

Judging Criteria

• Creativity - How are you bringing a unique idea into this challenge
• Wow factor - Is this a creative project and idea
• Execution - How well executed is this project, realizing it is only over a month.
• Information value - How informative is the project
• Multidisciplinary project - We encourage interdisciplinary created by teams with diverse backgrounds

More information to come!

 

When

Location

In person event

Onondaga County Public Libraries: Central Library, 447 S Salina St., 13202, View Map