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Updates and articles from WeGovNYC Databook.
Databook Update 9: School & School District Profiles
New York City has 1,003,629 students in its public school system. These students go to 2,190 schools. 1,907 of these s...
Databook Update 8: Get Normalized Data from our New API
Databook has always been two projects in one. The first project is our data pipeline that collects, normalizes and...
Databook Update 7: The City Record Online Remix
New York City’s "City Record" is the official "journal" where city agencies publish news and event information. Thi...
Databook Update 6: New "Civil Service Titles" Section Added
New York City government has a workforce over 300,000 people, and that workforce is structured by a system of "Civi...
Databook Update 5: Interactive Citywide Agency Organization Chart & More!
We're constantly adding and refining Databook features. For this one, we focused on improving the organization brow...
Databook named a "Top Websites for Urban Planning – 2021" by Planetizen
We were proud, and quite surprised, to see that the Databook was named one of 2021's "Top Websites for Urban Planning"...
Databook Update 4 - October 2021
Design and usability improvements: Connected Community Districts to Community Board Agency Profiles, enabling users...
WeGovNYC's Databook Featured in Local News Story
Gotham Gazette, a news site focused on New York politics, published an analysis of New York City’s capital projects tha...
Databook Update 3 - September 2021
Add Districts Section where users can select district type to see district boundaries, and then click a district to see...
Databook Update 2 - August 2021
Improve Capital Projects with Summaries and Maps Add summary box to Capital Project Browse and Capital Project Agenc...
Databook Update 1 - July 2021
We added Capital Projects section to the Databook. This involved adding new views: Browse all Capital Projects, sort...
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