Recovery Data Partnership

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Recovery Data Partnership

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The NYC Recovery Data Partnership (RDP) is a first-of-its-kind effort for community, non-profit, and private organizations to share data with the City to aid in Covid-19 response and recovery efforts. Data shared by partner organizations is provided free-of-charge to bolster understanding of how industry, service delivery, and the lived experiences of New Yorkers have been impacted by Covid-19, and will help to inform programmatic and policy decisions for an equitable recovery. The Recovery Data Partnership is centered on principles of privacy, fairness, accountability, and transparency.

The Recovery Data Partnership is chaired by the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics and the Mayor's Office of Operations, with counsel from the City's Chief Privacy Officer. Technical support was provided by the Department of City Planning's Data Engineering team.

If you have any questions about the Recovery Data Partnership, send an email to RecoveryData@cityhall.nyc.gov.

Current Data Partners

A list of current partners and the data they are sharing with the City is below:

PartnerData Being Shared
StreetEasy, Zillow Group's NYC brand Weekly real estate rental and sales metrics aggregated at the neighborhood level.
LinkedIn LinkedIn Hiring Rate, a real-time measure of hiring activity based on LinkedIn members who add a new employer to their profile.
Kinsa Aggregated rates of illness and atypical illness from Kinsa smart thermometer readings.
Foursquare Aggregated foot traffic data by neighborhood and specific types of businesses.
SafeGraph Business listings, building footprints/polygons, and aggregated and anonymized foot traffic data.
OATS Sociodemographic information and the degree tech usage/fluency of OATS users, older adults seeking age-appropriate technology training.
Cuebiq Aggregated mobility and density insights, including visit trends to key points of interest and nationwide travel behavior.
Upsolve Demographic information about New Yorkers signing up for personal bankruptcy services and why they are filing for bankruptcy.
NYU CUSP's SONYC Hourly aggregated decibel data from 15 acoustic noise sensors deployed across NYC since late 2016.

Mastercard

 Mastercard Geographic insights - aggregated retail spending insights by industry and neighborhood.

City Agency Data Use Cases

The chart below shows all approved use cases for data from the Recovery Data Partnership (last updated April 6, 2021):

AgencyData Partners
 Description
Department of City Planning
 Cuebiq, Foursquare
 DCP's Transportation Division is reviewing aggregrated and anonymized location data for information about changes in activity level at different establishments including retail and office. The data may help track activity levels in the CBD, in the types of businesses that support workers returning to the office, and areas where the Open Restaurants and Open Streets programs are active.
Department of City Planning
 Cuebiq, SafeGraph, StreetEasy
 DCP's Regional Planning Division is using aggregated and anonymized location data and real estate price indices to understand NYC resident migration and mobility patterns to- and from-NYC prior to and since the pandemic.
Department of City Planning Mastercard DCP's Transportation Divison is using aggregated neighborhood-level spending data to identify potential recovery trajectories and help tailor spatial planning and policy.
Department of City Planning
 StreetEasy
 DCP's Housing and Economic Development Division is using real estate price indices to understand changes in the NYC rental market on the neighborhood level since the beginning of the pandemic.
Department of City Planning
 StreetEasy
 DCP's Transportation Division is reviewing real estate metrics for information about residential preferences stemming from longer term shifts to teleworking, reduced frequency of commutes, and/or greater emphasis on "one-seat-rides" or shorter commutes.
Department of Transportation
 Cuebiq, Foursquare, Mastercard, SafeGraph, StreetEasy
 DOT's Performance Management team is using aggregated and anonymized location data and real estate indices, and aggregated neighborhood-level spending data to better understand changing travel patterns and to help inform resource allocation in the city's transportation network.
Department of Transportation
 Kinsa, LinkedIn, OATS, Upsolve
 DOT's Performance Management team is using partner data to support human resources analysis for their agency in the areas of hiring and recruitment, health and safety, and employee services.
Department of Transportation Cuebiq, Mastercard DOT is exploring ways of using aggregated neighborhood-level spending data and aggregated and anonymized foot traffic data to understand how new DOT projects have impacted traffic to and economic activity in major commerical areas during the pandemic.
Mayor's Office of Data Analytics Cuebiq, Foursquare, SafeGraph MODA is using anonymized mobility data and NYC's vaccine statistics to understand the relationship between mobility patterns and vaccine uptake rates by neighborhood.
Mayor's Office of Operations
 Cuebiq
 The Mayor's Office of Operations is using aggregated and anonymized mobility data of travelers entering NYC from other states to understand top-line travel trends and quarantine behavior.
New York City Council SafeGraph New York City Council's Data Team is using aggregated and anonymized mobility data to understand the impact of the City's COVID-19 response messaging and warning zone designation on neighborhood foot traffic.
NYC Emergency Management
 Foursquare, LinkedIn, StreetEasy
 NYCEM's Recovery Team is using various data sources to visualize trends across different recovery sectors in a dashboard shared internally with City employees and leadership.
NYC Office of Management and Budget Cuebiq, Mastercard OMB is using aggregated neighborhood-level spending data and aggregated and anonymized mobility data to understand economic dynamics in the city during the onset of the pandemic and throughout reopening.
NYC Office of Management and Budget SafeGraph OMB is using aggregated and anonymized mobility data to understand how travel and economic recovery has varied geographically across the city during the pandemic.
NYC Parks SafeGraph NYC Parks is using aggregated and anonymized mobility data to better understand park and beach traffic patterns and inform how to allocate resources.

City Agencies: Want to Access the Data for Analysis?

Before receiving access to partnership datasets, all City agencies are required to submit a Data Request Application to the RDP team that describes their intended responsible data use and analysis. Use cases will be reviewed by Partnership staff, with input from external advisors (described below).

Leadership and Staff

Martha Norrick serves as a Co-Chair and as Chief Analytics Officer and Director of the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics.

Jeff Thamkittikasem serves as a Co-Chair and Director of the Mayor's Office of Operations.

Staff from the First Deputy Mayor's Office, the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics, and the Mayor's Office of Operations support the initiative.

Guiding Principles of the Partnership

The City has designed this partnership with New Yorkers and the following principles in mind:

  • Equity and Fairness: The City aims to seek and use representative data of the lived experiences of New Yorkers from all backgrounds and geographies to inform efforts for an equitable recovery.
  • Transparency and Accountability: The Recovery Data Partnership team will review all proposed City uses of data provided by partners, and information about data uses will be made publicly available for New Yorkers to see how data is being used through analysis. Partnership advisors will have an opportunity to contribute their ideas and expertise as part of the City's review process.
  • Privacy: The City takes protecting and being a custodian of New Yorkers' information very seriously. All partners have agreed to adhere to City privacy and confidentiality guidelines, and the City will restrict data access to agencies and analysts with approved Covid-19-related use cases.

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If you have any questions about the Recovery Data Partnership, send an email to RecoveryData@cityhall.nyc.gov.