MTA Open Data Challenge
The MTA's Open Data Challenge invites participants to create projects using its datasets, with submissions due by October 25, 2024. Winners receive memorabilia and recognition on MTA platforms.
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The MTA is launching its inaugural Open Data Challenge, inviting community members, developers, and data enthusiasts to create projects using MTA's open datasets. This month-long competition encourages participants to explore MTA's data in innovative ways, with the goal of making a meaningful impact in areas such as transportation, technology, or urban planning. The winner will receive a vintage New York City Transit memorabilia item and will have their project featured on the MTA’s Data & Analytics Blog and social media. To enter, participants must submit their projects via email by 11:59 PM EDT on October 25, 2024, including a project description, links to the datasets used, and a completed submission form. Projects can take various forms, such as web apps, visualizations, maps, or reports. Judging will be based on creativity, utility, execution, and transparency, emphasizing the importance of using publicly available data effectively.
- The MTA's Open Data Challenge invites innovative projects using its open datasets.
- Submissions are due by October 25, 2024, and must include a project description and links to datasets.
- The winner will receive a vintage memorabilia item and recognition on MTA platforms.
- Projects can be in various formats, including apps, visualizations, and reports.
- Judging criteria focus on creativity, utility, execution, and transparency.
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- Concerns about the reliability and accuracy of open data, with examples of potential misinterpretation.
- Suggestions for a more structured challenge, focusing on specific problems to solve rather than open-ended data use.
- Requests for specific datasets related to MTA employee payroll and subway improvement projects.
- Criticism of the prize for the challenge being perceived as underwhelming.
- General interest in the challenge, with some users sharing links to relevant resources and visualizations.
15 commentsFOIA is the better alternative because it gives you the original, pre-cleaned data. Open data is a lie.
I wanted to investigate how well MTA is managing its workforce and compensation (as to require additional tax in form of Congestion Pricing to fix its budget hole), but there seems to be no dataset for that.
Does anyone have links to MTA payroll/hours/overtime related dataset?
or alternatively, I need dataset to study each and every subway improvement project, and components of each project in materials, labor and etc
https://new.mta.info/article/introducing-subway-origin-desti...
Then I think, oh, right, wrong MTA. Guess I've spent too much time dealing with email servers.
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