Department of Civil Service

Description:

Working under the direction of an Information Technology Specialist 3, incumbent will work closely with partner agencies to support the New York Open Data platform (Open Data NY) established in March, 2013 by Governor's Executive Order 95.

Open Data NY (https://data.ny.gov) has been an internationally recognized, award winning platform for making NYS government data available to the public to increase transparency, promote research, economic opportunity, innovation, engagement, and awareness of government functions. Open Data NY has been second to none among programs of its kind in its attention to quality and discoverability for data assets published to the platform.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

-- Review data and associated documentation submitted by partner agencies for quality, correctness, and value as a public data asset.
-- Provide clear written or verbal feedback and suggestions to partner agencies for improving dataset submissions.
--Work with partner agencies to guide assigned datasets through the publishing process.
--Load dataset submissions onto the Open Data NY platform.
--Evaluate data for potentially valuable companion visualizations such as aggregations, charts, and maps.
--Take part in team discussions regarding dataset submissions.
-- Respond to partner agency questions about the Open Data NY program and our publishing procedures.
-- Contribute to the development of new or updated guidance.
-- Ensure that published datasets are being kept up-to-date according to their specified posting frequency, and follow-up with owning agency as necessary.
-- Scripting programming:
- Rewrite existing Microsoft PowerShell scripts using Python.
- Rewrite and extend existing Microsoft Visual Basic for Applciations (VBA) macros using Python;
- Perform data analysis using Python.

Skills:

Familiarity with Excel

Familiarity with basic data analysis

solid communication skills

Ability to work with a team and independ

Internship Areas: Communications/Public Relations, Information Technology, Planning/Analysis/Research