Hello Data Enthusiast,
We hope you had a restful spring break and are ready to take on the rest of the semester! Explore the many ways we support researchers at NYU by visiting our website.
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RE/PRESENTING DATA: Urban Data Visualization Competition |
The deadline for submissions to Re/Presenting Data, our Urban Data Visualization competition, is coming up quickly: submissions are due by April 3 2026 at 11:59pm! Time to check out our competition website and select one of our curated list of datasets to reimagine creatively. You could win a prize of up to $500!
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Building Urban Data Community Event: April 9, 2026! |
Please join us at our Building Urban Data Community: NYU Open Data Creators’ Forum event on April 9 to celebrate urban data creators, listen to some great speakers, and admire and judge the Re/Presenting Data competition entrants! Prof. Shlomo Angel, professor of Urban Planning and director of the Urban Expansion Initiative, will give a keynote talk about his experience creating open data projects, and we’ll hear lightning talks from all around the university. Enjoy refreshments and mingle with fellow data creators and enthusiasts!
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Spreadsheets and Snacks 🧑💻 📊🍪🧃 |
Looking to make your Excel excellent? Are you making magic in your Google sheets? Join us at Spreadsheets and Snacks, whether you're stuck on a problem or want to show off a favorite tip or trick you've learned along the way.
Register on LibCal and feel free to invite anyone else you know from the NYU community to join!
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New Class: Branching & Merging with Git |
Have you ever encountered a "merge conflict" in your Git repository, and it frustrated you so much you had to copy your code, delete the whole folder, and re-download it? NO MORE! Come learn how to rectify merge conflicts in Git repositories, when and how to create branches for collaboration, and how to create pull requests so your code finds a permanent home.
This class will be held at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, April 7th, Bobst 617. Register on LibCal and feel free to invite anyone else you know from the NYU community to join!
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Survey: Data Services Refresh |
We’re working on a refresh of the Data Services Lab space on the 5th Floor of Bobst Library. Whether you’re a lab regular or didn’t even know we had a physical space on the Square, please take this survey so we can learn more about how we can support you. Survey participants can also enter to win a pair of Apple AirPods 4!
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Interested in being a part of the Data Services student specialists team? Be on the lookout for our job postings in early April on Handshake! For more questions, reach out to data.services@nyu.edu.
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What's New in UltraViolet |
UltraViolet is part of a suite of repositories at NYU that provide a home for research materials. Data Services helps NYU researchers prepare their materials for deposit in UltraViolet to facilitate open access and long-term preservation.
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This month, we received the latest in a series of reports from Steven A. Altman and Caroline Bastian at Stern’s DHL Initiative on Globalization, the 2026 DHL Global Connectedness Report with its accompanying data, and the latest version of their DHL Global Connectedness Tracker. Their timely research analyzes “flows of trade, capital, information, and people” to assess the current state of globalization. The reports’ authors-who are among NYU’s earliest adopters of UltraViolet-rely on UltraViolet to provide long-term storage for their research, as well as a DOI for their reports so fellow researchers can consistently and accurately cite their materials.
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Bloomberg is often considered synonymous with business. Researchers at NYU have access to Bloomberg’s financial services platform via Bloomberg Terminals located at several NYU Libraries. These dedicated stations (which can be identified by their colorful keyboards) provide analysis and quotes for equities (stocks) and indices, company and economic data for the countries of the world, real-time and historical industry and market news, and advanced analytical and data functions. It is an industry standard in the financial services and investment banking industries. Higher education terminals - including NYU's terminals - do not include the trading module and market data is delayed by 15 minutes. You can also access our Bloomberg.com subscription via the BBG command. Read more about where to find the terminals and how to get started on them on the NYU Libraries' Bloomberg Research Guide.
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Image Credit: Data Rescue Project
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There have been significant changes to the availability of federal data which are heavily used by researchers and the general public. These data also undergird policy and funding decisions made on behalf of people across the US and worldwide.
As part of one of the grassroots efforts to maintain access to these data, a Data Rescue Project volunteer recently completed the rescue of over 3,100 files behind the Centers for Disease Control's AtlasPlus. AtlasPlus is an interactive dashboard from the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention, meant to support researchers in creating customized tables, maps, and charts. This essential tool contains more than 20 years of data that allows researchers to view the data on each disease in comparison with social and economic data. However, like most dashboards and interactive tools, the underlying data were difficult to reach individually." View the data in DataLumos or the Data Rescue Portal entry to access the data, and find more alternative sources for government data on our Data Sources Research Guide.
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Data Services Team Spotlight |
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Image Credit: Snighda Anantharaju
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Q.What is your name, program, and year?
My name is Snigdha Anantharaju, and I'm a second year master's student in Urban Data Science at the Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP), NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Q.What's your service area at Data Services and how long have you worked here?
I specialize in GIS and spatial analysis and I've been working at Data Services for over 10 months now.
Q.What do you like most about working at Data Services?
I really enjoy connecting with folks from various backgrounds and disciplines and seeing how GIS can be helpful in a plethora of ways. I also love interacting with my colleagues about their areas of expertise and learning from them!
Q. Describe your favorite data-related project that you've worked on.
It's hard to pick just one, but a standout project I worked on with Dr. Anton Rozhkov and Leo Ma explored spatiotemporal travel patterns across 42 U.S. cities. We conducted a comparative analysis of how far one can travel within 15 minutes from each city's Central Business District by public transit versus by car, using network analysis techniques. The project revealed striking differences in accessibility between modes and across cities. A highlight for me was creating a poster of maps from this work, which went on to win the 2025 GIS Day Mapping Competition.
Q. What's your favorite place to get a meal or a snack near Bobst Library?
Hands down, the halal cart outside Bobst Library!
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| Thanks for reading! We hope to see you soon either on the 5th floor at Bobst or online.
- Your friends at Data Services
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