Open Data and Better Questions: Engaging New Yorkers to Develop Questions that Matter in the Age of AI
adults
lectures and discussions
The GovLab, Brooklyn Public Library, and Alliance for Public Interest Technology at New York University will be hosting a special “Questions Lab” as part of New York City Open Data Week 2026. In it, we will give New Yorkers the opportunity to formulate good, data-driven questions about the issues they care about and to meaningfully connect those questions to specific datasets in NYC Open Data or other, non-traditional repositories. It will include a brief presentation followed by small group discussions on the questions that New Yorkers care about.
The end result of this work will be a prioritized mapping of the questions that matter for New Yorkers. This event is open to anyone interested in data and how it can be used to set a policy agenda.
Participants will leave the event with a practical methodology for developing well-crafted, data-driven questions and the work they produce will inform new open data research.
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03/27/2026 02:00 pm
03/27/2026 03:30 pm
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Open Data and Better Questions: Engaging New Yorkers to Develop Questions that Matter in the Age of AI
<div id="x_docs-internal-guid-481db26d-7fff-3e6a-5053-35a504590121"><div><p><a href="https://thegovlab.org/">The GovLab</a>, Brooklyn Public Library, and <a href="https://alliance.hosting.nyu.edu/">Alliance for Public Interest Technology at New York University</a> will be hosting a special “Questions Lab” as part of <a href="https://opendataweek.nyc/"><strong>New York City Open Data Week 2026</strong></a>. In it, we will give New Yorkers the opportunity to formulate good, data-driven questions about the issues they care about and to meaningfully connect those questions to specific datasets in NYC Open Data or other, non-traditional repositories. It will include a brief presentation followed by small group discussions on the questions that New Yorkers care about.</p></div></div><div><p>The end result of this work will be a prioritized mapping of the questions that matter for New Yorkers. This event is open to anyone interested in data and how it can be used to set a policy agenda. </p></div><div><p>Participants will leave the event with a practical methodology for developing well-crafted, data-driven questions and the work they produce will inform new open data research.</p><…
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