About the challenge Come join the City of Syracuse for our 2nd Open Data Day! You can learn about what information the City of Syracuse puts on the Open Data Portal, participate in breakout sessions to learn industry standard tools for accessing and visualizing open data, and create your own data project submission. Sign up below. It's free, it's fun, and there will be food provided! The event is on Saturday November 2nd from 10:00am - 4:30pm, and attendance is free to any or all of the sessions. Doors open at 9:30am. The contest will be a month long data challenge, where the featured focus area will be released in the beginning of October. The project pitches and judging will happen in the afternoon of November 2nd. For updated schedule information, refer back to this page for announcements and more information. Link to register: https://www.meetup.com/syrtech/events/302578991 Agenda: 9:30-10:00am- Breakfast and Networking 10:00-10:30am- Greeting and Kickoff 10:30-11:20am- Breakout Session #1
Topic
Speaker Name
Speaker Information
Utilizing Census Data Tools
Amy Brombos
Data Dissemination Specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau
AI Concerns for Local Government
Cassandra Madison
Center for Public Sector AI
Data Driven Community Quilting
Rachel Ivy Clarke
Associate Professor at SU iSchool
11:30-12:20pm- Breakout Session #2
Housing Panel
Latoya Allen (panelist)
Chief Community Relations Officer, Home Headquarters
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Liam Kirst (panelist)
Community Engagement Coordinator, Southside Community Growth Fund
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Ben Lockwood (panelist)
President & CEO, Housing Visions
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Leah Russell (panelist)
Peacemaking Project Coordinator, Center for Justice Innovation
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Michelle Sczpanski (facilitator)
Deputy Comissioner of Neighborhood Development, City of Syracuse
Projects made with Open Data (RacingHousing Bar Chart made in Flourish& Property Lookup tool in JavaScript)
Mark King
Application Developer & Data Science Consultant
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Jon Moss
Breaking News Reporter, Syracuse.com
Data Justice Frameworks
Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian
Preofessor and Endowed Chair, Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School & Director of CODE^SHIFT (Collaboratory for Date Equity, Social Healing, Inclusive Futures, and Transformation)
Using Public Data with Artwork
Saptarshi Lahiri
Makerspace Librarian at OCPL's Central Library. Saptarshi's training and background are in environmental field research, and library & information sciences. He is interested in current maker technology, maps and spatial data, research techniques, literacy trends, particularly around the burgeoning field of AI.
12:30-1:00pm- Lunch 1:00-1:50pm- Breakout Session #3
Project Built with Parcel Flood Data
Peter Wilcoxen
Professor, Syracuse University Maxwell School
Analysis of housing and homelessness trends across the country over time
Amanda Darcangelo
Lead Data & Analytics Consultant for CTI, a boutique data firm focused on strategy, data roadmaps, and implementing solutions to support organizations as they grow their data capabilities.
Amanda has been in the data industry for over 10 years and has worked across a number of sectors including eCommerce, public sector, finance, healthcare, and marketing analytics in addition to working across the full stack of data capabilities including analytics, architecture, engineering, and governance. For the past few years, her focus has been as data governance practitioner that has delivered effective governance programs for leading Billion doallar healthcare organizations and universities over the past year that include Mount Sinai Health, UCF, Multiplan and others.
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Ashley Gingeleski
Associate Data & Analytics Consultant for CTI Data where she focuses on data science, AI, and data governance.
Ashley has been working in the data industry for about 6 years with work experience in utilities and higher education. She is a co-organizer of Salt City Data Community, a virtual tech meetup based out of Syracuse, NY. She is also pursuing her master's degree in Analytics at Georgia Tech and focuses on projects involving text analysis and classification.
Open Data with GIS
& Syracuse Open Data Overview
Jonnell Robinson
Geography Professor, Syracuse University Maxwell School
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Jason Scharf
Data Program Manager, City of Syracuse Office of Analytics Performance & Innovation (API team)
2:00-3:00pm- Data Project Pitches 3:00-4:00pm- Community Tech & Career Fair 4:00-4:30pm- Winners Announced & Event Closing We will be updating the schedule with speakers and more other event information. Please refer to https://data.syr.gov for announcements and more information.
Oct. 2, 2024 - Nov. 2, 2024
City of Syracuse
447 S Salina St, Syracuse, NY 13202, USA
$2,300
