Category: Urban Analytics

Delivering Results: Better Data Through Collective Ownership

by Benjamin Listman  Over the course of the COVID pandemic, frontline workers–nurses, doctors, grocery store clerks, waitstaff–garnered the nation’s respect and gratitude to help the rest of us stay safe at home. Although eating establishments eventually reopened across the country, indenser cities like New York, there was a boom in demand for food delivery, highlighting… Read more Delivering Results: Better Data Through Collective Ownership

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The Role of Inclusive Data in a COVID-19 Recovery

by Samantha Sánchez  The COVID-19 pandemic has irrevocably changed New Yorkers. New York City residents were glued to their TV and computer screens anxiously awaiting information in early March 2020, as the City became an early epicenter of the virus. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rose to the occasion and began his Emmy award-winning daily… Read more The Role of Inclusive Data in a COVID-19 Recovery

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Disaggregated Data is the Key to an Equitable Vaccine Distribution

by Samantha Sánchez  The COVID-19 vaccine has been on our minds since New York City went into lockdown on  March 22, 2020, yearning to return to the busy streets and life of our beloved city. 9 months later, the COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the public distribution by the CDC. The first dose in the… Read more Disaggregated Data is the Key to an Equitable Vaccine Distribution

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Can We Reimagine the Cultivation and Distribution of NYPD Data?

by Samantha Sánchez  Trigger warning– The following article mentions police brutality against Black communities, police misconduct accounts, and crime statistics. Please consider this warning before continuing.  Nationwide, police departments have been a topic of discussion throughout 2020. Beginning in March with the murder of Breonna Taylor by the Louisville Metro Police Department in Kentucky, to… Read more Can We Reimagine the Cultivation and Distribution of NYPD Data?

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¿Qué es esto? A Conversation about Misinformation for Latinx WhatsApp Users

by Samantha Sánchez WhatsApp is one of the world’s largest messaging platforms, with more than 2 billion users in 180 countries, 1 billion daily users, and 7.65 billion messages sent every day. There are 120 million WhatsApp users in Brazil and 77 million users in Mexico. WhatsApp is widely used for a few reasons–it connects… Read more ¿Qué es esto? A Conversation about Misinformation for Latinx WhatsApp Users

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