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Databook

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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NYC Civil Title Viewer

Profiles of NYC civil-service titles — descriptions, positions, roles and pay. Began as a standalone experiment and now lives as Databook’s titles section.

NC

NYC Contracting Explorer

Search and analysis of NYC procurement: contracts, vendors and solicitations. Began as a standalone experiment and now lives as Databook’s procurement section.

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Aug 12This update consolidates AT&T vehicle tracking and LexisNexis legal research services into unified product families. It also refines data curation for the top 60 city-procured technologies, adding critical context on pricing levers, open-source alternatives, and vendor overlaps for key platforms like DocuSign, PayPal, and SAS.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 12This update curates six new major software families, increasing reviewed coverage to 81% of total contract value. It refines the public-facing descriptions to prevent outdated figures from conflicting with live database calculations, and adds cross-references for fleet management systems and complex corporate relationships.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 12Updated the public Licenses page to correct outdated statistics and published a new documentation guide detailing the review process, planned improvements, and key findings for the page.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 12This update adds a new section to vendor and product pages highlighting pending citywide purchasing agreements and contract ceilings that were previously invisible in the data. It also introduces curated context for Salesforce and MyCity, clarifying how reseller contracts, platform labor, and unregistered agreements affect reported spending totals.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 12This update completes the hand-review of the city's top 20 procurement license families, increasing the publicly reviewed share of contract value from 53.8% to 89.4%. It adds public reasoning and pricing benchmarks for major vendors like Axon, SoundThinking, and Dataminr to help users understand these high-value technology purchases.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 12This update corrects the spelling of "licenses" in the page title on the family profile page. It also updates internal page comments to accurately reflect that the analysis is now publicly published.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗
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