NCNYC 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.
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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Aug 5Updated public documentation to correct outdated information regarding the Checkbook data lake refresh crons, which are now active. The updates also revise the system health check documentation to accurately reflect all eight active monitoring checks and document the retirement of the newsletter repository copy due to security improvements.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 5This update improves the reliability of the public API by ensuring that temporary, incomplete data during system restarts is never cached. This prevents contract pages from temporarily displaying blank spend figures, ensuring users always see accurate financial data.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 5Updated public developer documentation to record active Cloudflare caching rules for the /oce/ and /get/ API endpoints, which significantly improve response times. The documentation also details the behavior of the scraper challenge rules and custom firewall settings to ensure reliable public API access.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 4This update significantly improves the loading speed of procurement, contract, and vendor pages. By adding database indexes to the contracts, vendors, and solicitations tables, the system can now instantly retrieve specific records instead of scanning through entire datasets.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 4Resolved a cron collision issue during organization refreshes.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Aug 4Changed the NYCHA data refresh schedule from weekly to monthly to reduce system load, and updated the staleness alert threshold to 40 days to match. Also added a documentation file outlining data publisher improvement requests for the Comptroller's CheckbookNYC and MOCS teams.wegovnyc/databook-private ↗Knowledge
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wegovnyc/databook_interfaceJan 26, 2022