QUESTION
How often are open data coordinators trained, and which agencies engage more frequently with the NYC Open Data Program?
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Open Data coordinators receive annual training and have regular office hours with the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation for support. Key agencies like health and transportation have monthly meetings to manage their high data outputs.
- Open Data coordinators across all NYC agencies undergo at least one annual training session.
- Regular office hours and monthly meetings are available for personalized support and issues troubleshooting.
- Larger agencies, including health, transportation, education, and police departments, engage more frequently due to significant data processing needs.
- The program ensures all open data coordinators have ongoing support for data management and publication.
Martha Norrick
0:18:36
And how often are
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:18:40
their trainings for the open data coordinators at these agents?
0:18:43
Fees?
0:18:44
Like, how often do they need to?
Zachary Feder
0:18:46
So we regularly have office hours with agency open data coordinators depending on the agency for larger agencies where they're they're processing a ton of data and generating a ton of data, we'll have, like, a monthly recurring meeting.
0:19:00
And then, broadly, we have at least one to year a training for all of the open data coordinators.
0:19:06
But we're talking to open data coordinators, and as Martha was describing troubleshooting specific problems all the time.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:19:12
Right.
0:19:13
And for some of those bigger agencies, what what are some of those larger agencies where you're like, you're kinda checking in on them more frequently and and maybe they're utilizing this, like, office hours more often.
Zachary Feder
0:19:27
Yeah.
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And and to be clear, the office hours are available to everyone.
0:19:31
Mhmm.
0:19:31
And and we have office hour meetings with a lot of agencies, but we do have these, like, regular check ins with, like, what comes to mind or, like, the health department, the transportation department, Department of Education, the police department.
0:19:46
It it it really Some of it depends on, like, current datasets in the pipeline.
0:19:52
So as we have, like, a larger queue of things that are getting to be published.
Robert Holden
0:19:56
Mhmm.
Zachary Feder
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We will frequently have, like, regular meetings with agencies that are about to have their data.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:20:01
You mentioned both PD and DOE because on on this side, if you, like, a lot of the the bills that were forced to intro our our reporting bills.
0:20:09
And so I'm glad that you mentioned both of those agencies.