13 The Equitable Development Data Explorer
Channel: BetaNYC
Date: 2023-04-10

NYC School of Data 2023 - March 18 2023 

Winnie Shen, Housing Planner, NYC Department of City Planning
Tyler Matteo, Software Engineering Team Lead, NYC Department of City Planning
James Piacentini, Product Manager, NYC Department of City Planning

Join NYC Planning for a presentation on the background, design, and data organization of the Equitable Development Data Explorer (EDDE) [https://equitableexplorer.planning.nyc.gov]. EDDE was developed in a joint effort by NYC Department of City Planning and NYC Housing Preservation Departmnet to represent NYC's efforts to quantify and analyze neighborhood-based displacement risk, as well as to provide essential data across a variety of factors to be included in the newly mandated Racial Equity Reports as part of the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) process.

Local Law 78 of 2021 outlined a set of indicators to be included in the Equitable Development Data Explorer, but directed the NYC Departments of City Planning and Housing Preservation and Development to determine the complete list of data points and specify methodologies for how the data points should be incorporated into a displacement risk map. The tool provides a statistically-calculated risk index map that evaluates displacement risks for NYC at the Neighborhood Tabulation Area (NTA) geography level, as well as provides a wide array of open data on Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs), which are roughly analogous to Community Districts.

This session will include a presentation on the background and concept of the tool, and will be a deep dive into the data engineering and ui/ux design processes. We will walk through the various datasets used to build the risk index as well as how our engineering team utilized innovative management strategies to present these data efficiently in the tool. We will also breakdown the design prototyping, and how data and design informed one another throughout the process. We will demonstrate use cases through an interactive demonstration, showcasing how a user can learn more about their neighborhood, and how a developer might use the tool to generate necessary data for their Racial Equity Report to submit during ULURP.

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ABOUT NYC SCHOOL OF DATA 2023
NYC School of data is a community driven conference with a focus on open data, civic technology, and service design. https://beta.nyc/2023/03/07/nyc-school-of-data-2023-is-here/
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