Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around civic data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference kicks off NYC’s annual Open Data Week & features OVER 30 sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community! Our conversations & workshops will feed your mind and empower you to improve your neighborhood. Follow the conversation #nycSOdata on twitter and tune into our live stream (provided by the Internet Society of New York).
Although we have access to a large number of datasets at NYC OpenData, using them in practice can bring its own set of challenges, particularly with respect to data quality — the data may be incomplete, inconsistent or subject to error among other issues. But in spite of a dataset’s limitations, we can find ways to assess and improve data quality with an eye toward fit for purpose and user expectations.
As a framework for discussion, James will focus on data quality of Parking Regulation datasets while Tim will speak to data quality of the Open Parking and Camera Violations and Parking Violations Issued datasets.
