The Syracuse Civic Data Challenge
from https://data.syr.gov/pages/data-challenge
“Civic Data Challenge is a month-long contest where members of the community get the chance to use datasets from Open Data Syracuse to build an interesting data visualization, website application, data analysis, map, chatbot, or any other type of project that uses the featured dataset.”
Judging Criteria
| Category Weights | Not Known |
|---|---|
| Creativity | Execution |
| Wow factor | Informational value |
Data Sources
It sounds like we’ll need to use one data set from Open Data Syracuse, and any other additional data sets that will help strengthen the project.
Previous Topics
- July: Open Data with Generative AI
- October: Announced 1 October
Data Categories on Open Data Syracuse
| Category | Sets | Category | Sets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing | 25 | Ticket | 2 |
| Map | 22 | 3D Model | 1 |
| Crime | 18 | Art | 1 |
| Budget | 14 | Business | 1 |
| Education | 8 | Fire | 1 |
| Water | 6 | NY (2010) | 1 |
| Parks & Rec | 5 | NY (2020) | 1 |
| Pavement | 4 | Parking | 1 |
| Transportation | 4 | Personnel | 1 |
| Gov Services | 3 | Potholes | 1 |
| Nature | 2 | Snow | 1 |
| Permits | 2 | Utilities | 1 |
| Sensor Data | 2 | - | - |
Past Winning Projects
- Syracuse Parks & Art
- SyrChecker
- From Parking to Housing
- WalkSafe
- Syracuse Crime & Rental Analytics
- Technology, Health, and Poverty
- Syracuse Bike Infrastructure
- Demographic Disparity Analysis in Transportation Complaints
- Visual Analysis of Syracuse Data - PowerBI Visualization
- Lead Exposure Risks in the City of Syracuse
- SYRCityline Data Explorer (Discord Bot)
- Syracuse Public Art Analysis
- SeeClickFix Analysis
- Childhood Lead Exposure
- Surveillance Technology - Comment Dashboard
- Cuse Water
- Car Care for ‘Cuse
- Syracuse’s Historic Water Main System
Characteristics of the Project
What exactly this project will look like yet, I’m not sure, but just by glancing at the past winners, I think of the principles of the Society of Spoken Art (SOSA)
“‘Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas,’ which translates to ‘Solid, Useful & Beautiful.”