Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around open data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference concludes NYC’s Open Data Week & features 30+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community! Our conversations and workshops will feed your mind and inspire you to improve your neighborhood.
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With NYC open data as your raw material, join Kelly Dinneen of the BetaNYC Associate Board to learn practical techniques for drafting nonfiction comics and join a collaborative experiment in using sequential art to engage with civic data.
We'll begin by exploring a few NYC open datasets ripe for narrative and visual interpretation. Then we will discuss comic works that clarify complex systems, give voice to competing perspectives, and create unique pairings of the concrete and abstract. During the hands-on portion of the workshop, we will move through a series of iterative activities with our chosen datasets—data exploration, visual inspiration, free writing, and doodling—where visual, textual, and analytical elements inform one another. You will leave with the draft of a mini comic, and the tools and inspiration to continue developing your project.
