NYC Facets

metadata

Metadata
NYC Open Data Dictionary
(data about the datasets)
Powered by semantics,
statistics and the crowd.
For Developers

Data Wrangler

datasets

Datasets
Curated datasets from
NYC Open Data Catalog
+ more high quality datasets
Pre-wrangled data saves you time.
For Data Geeks

Data Commons

linked answers

Linked Data/Answers
Data Actionboards and
City Knowledgebase.
For the Rest of Us

Coming Summer 2013.
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River of Data

The first cities were built on riverbanks. The river waters afforded the first citizens food, hygiene and transportation.

In the 21st century, Data is the lifeblood of the Information Economy.

We're creating a River of Data, linked together to build the "Digital Cities of our Future".

DUMBO, Brooklyn
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Idea Acceleration

When inspiration strikes, how do you find out if you have the necessary Data to convert your Idea to Reality?

We're building a comprehensive Linked Data catalog of about all things NYC that you can serendipitously explore with your Muse.

NYU-POLY Varick Incubator
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Communitization

Social media, strangely enough, has promoted Digital Cocooning.

We're hosting a Linked City Data Commons around which people can build dot.Communities.

Washington Square Park

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Blog

Why Open Data Should Matter to Urban Planners

This is the first in a series of articles about Why Open Data Matters. I’m completing my Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College (graduating May 30, 2013!), so I chose Urban Planners as for the first article in this series. PediaCities is a data informatics startup – we organize, wrangle, and link data [...]

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Wonkageekathon – GovLabs and the Birth of CityMission

When big thinkers, designers & coders hack together.
Last month, we were invited to participate in the Inaugural Experiment of GovLabs.
It was a mind-blowing experience! First off, we couldn’t help but be star-struck at all the luminaries milling about from the Civic Tech, Gov 2.0, Open Data and Semantic Web worlds – Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler, [...]

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#ArtsTech Unconference Presentation – Data Visualization: Techniques and Data Wrangling Procedures

Check out the presentation we organized for the #ArtsTech Unconference.
Presenters:
Nathan Storey, Product/Communications Manger for PediaCities
Chris Whong: Data Viz Enthusiast
Michael Thompson:  Accelerator Information Studios
If you have any data wrangling needs for NYC data, add them here: http://bitly.com/data_needs
Get in touch with us if you have any followup questions!

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About

Pediacities is the “Smarter Cities” brand of Ontodia. Ontodia is a Web 3.0 startup focused on building "Human-powered, Machine-accelerated, Collective Knowledge Systems", or "Crowdknowing" as we call it. Our NYCBigApps Grand-Prize winning NYCFacets, is but our first offering in this space - a small, but necessary step of cataloging and characterizing the rich data catalog that NYC has to offer, on top of which we aim to create a rich ecosystem for Linked Open Data innovation. In 2013, we'll launch an exciting, Smart City solution that is geared to the general public - watch this space :)

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