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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Tree canopy covers over a fifth of the land area in New York City, offering a wide variety of benefits to people and biodiversity while supporting resilience in the face of a changing climate. The Nature Conservancy, with collaboration and review by NYC Parks, recently released data on tree canopy in NYC as of 2021 – an update to datasets released by the City for 2010 and 2017. Come learn about the data, some initial findings about tree canopy in NYC and how it is changing, and how you can start working with the data yourself in open source software (QGIS) from Mike Treglia (Lead Scientist of the NY Cities Program at The Nature Conservancy) and Uma Bhandaram (Deputy Chief of Environment & Planning at NYC Parks). If you are interested in trees in NYC or the environment more broadly, urban planning, or spatial data and GIS, this session might be for you!
