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An award-winning transparency tool that combines over 50 official NYC open datasets — agencies, people, jobs, capital projects, schools, districts and procurement — into one searchable picture of how city government works.

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Aug 13
PR #247: Overview rebuilt, and the scope gate flipped: one universe for the whole section wegovnyc/databook-private

This update expands the digital procurement dataset to 4,397 contracts worth $10.6B across 967 vendors. It introduces a new contract classification system that separates software licenses from other functional categories, adds active/ended contract splits, and displays the specific technology families each vendor resells.

@devinbalkind
Aug 13
PR #246: Daily briefing: the name-join dropped real new vendors (+ an inventory guard for the last of them) wegovnyc/databook-private

Fixed a bug in the daily briefing that caused duplicate vendor entries to push new vendors off the report. Corrected a data discrepancy on the expiring digital reform page, and added safeguards to prevent future duplicate vendor-name matching errors across the platform.

@devinbalkind
Aug 13
PR #245: Agency profile: a vendor is one row — the name-join listed 20 of them twice wegovnyc/databook-private

Fixed a bug on agency procurement pages where certain vendors were listed multiple times due to duplicate database records. This correction ensures that vendor counts and badges match accurately across the platform, displaying each company as a single entry with its correct consolidated contract details.

@devinbalkind
Aug 12
PR #244: Vendor identity + the Renewal Queue re-scope: three surfaces that listed one vendor as two wegovnyc/databook-private

This update improves the Digital Services Renewal Review Queue by transitioning it to a more accurate "derived" scope. Key public-facing changes include resolving vendor duplication errors, introducing class-specific evaluation levers for non-software licenses, retiring the non-tech disclosure filter, and adding direct links from license rows to their respective family pages.

@devinbalkind
Aug 12
PR #243: Top-30 contract review: 7 of 30 are not technology wegovnyc/databook-private

This update refines the public technology contracts database by reviewing and correcting the top 30 highest-value contracts. It excludes $2.6 billion in non-technology contracts—such as construction and financial services—ensuring more accurate spending data and segment totals across analytics, telecom, and infrastructure.

@devinbalkind
Aug 12
PR #242: Digital scope: one owner behind a tag→derived gate + contract-grain curation wegovnyc/databook-private

This update unifies the digital services data logic into a single module and introduces a contract-grain curation system to correct misclassified high-value contracts. It also adds a new worksheet tool to review and verify top non-license technology contracts, laying the groundwork for more accurate digital spending data in future updates.

@devinbalkind
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