Building A Smart + Equitable City Minvera Tantoco, Chief Technical Officer, City of New York Predicting Student Residential Data Jonathan Geis, NYC Department of Education Video of this session at the Database Camp conference at the UN is on http://www.Database.Camp

1. Minerva Tantoco
Chief Technology Officer
CITY OF NEW YORK
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2.  City Hall: “We Get It”
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Mayor’s Office of Tech + Innovation

3. BOLD TECH STRATEGY
Talent
Access
Innovation

4. Talent

5. Nearly 22% of NYC households
– over 600,000 people – do not
have Internet access at home.
Access

6. Infrastructure
re-imagined.
Digital display
for advertising &
public service
announcements
Free 24/7 Public Wi-Fi
Android tablet with
touch screen display
Directional speaker &
Microphone
Headphone jack
Tactile Key Pad
& Braille lettering
Dedicated 911 button
Cell phone charger
Durable aluminum
construction
Integrated lighting
Decreased footprint
to reduce sidewalk
clutter

7. Traffic signal
prioritization
 5,700 public buses
 2.5 million passengers
every weekday
 12,860 signaled
intersections – all
connected wirelessly
 20% reduction in bus
transit delays

8. + Public-Private Partnerships
+ Problem-Based Challenges
+ Prototypes & Pilots
Innovation

9. By 2020, there will be more than
50 Billion connected devices.

10. This brings new
products, new
customers, new
business models.

11. The IoT guidelines are high-level, allow for
flexibility, and will evolve over time.
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The guidelines span five topic areas:
1. Privacy and Transparency
2. Data Management
3. Infrastructure
4. Security
5. Operations and Sustainability

12. • NYC Parks Smarter Parks Initiative
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• NYC Open Data Portal
www.nyc.gnycopendata.socrata.com
• NYC Parks Smarter Parks Initiative
www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/benches/solar
• NYC Open Data Portal
www.nyc.gnycopendata.socrata.com
Smart + Equitable City

13. Predicting Student
Residential Data
Database Camp at the UN
NYC Department of Education
Office of District Planning
Jonathan Geis
July 10th, 2016

14. NYC Department of Education Overview
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• 32 School Districts (each
with a Community
Education Council)
• Most elementary schools
are zoned:
• Students living in the
school’s catchment area
receive priority to a
seat in their zoned
school

15. School Rezonings – Office of District Planning
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• Why Rezone?
• Create a zone for a new school
• Alleviate or reduce waitlists and overcrowding
• Equalize utilization across buildings in a district
• Seat Demand: How many students do we anticipate?
We assess demand based on several factors including:
• The historical number of students living in the zone;
• Anticipated residential growth, based on current/future
housing developments.

16. Methodology – Determining the Zone Lines
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• Contains appropriate number of residents for a school’s size, based on
recent public school enrollment trends
• Factors we take into consideration:
• New residential construction
• Diversity
• Geographic barriers
• Travel distance

17. Rezoning Example: New Zone for New Capacity
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18. Sources of Data
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• Currently, the projected number of new students living within a zone
is based on:
• Historical Enrollment
• Census Data
• Residential Construction ‐ using the borough housing multiplier
included in the New York City Environmental Quality Review
(CEQR)

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