Christian Martinez, "NYC Open Data Student Gallery" (Brooklyn College CUNY, 2026)
About this episode
This episode discusses the NYC Open Data Student Gallery project completed by students at Brooklyn College, focusing on their use of real-world data for psychological research.
About NYC Open Data During the Fall 2025 semester, students in the M.S. program in Psychological Research at Brooklyn College completed the inaugural offering of Reproducible Psychological Research. Using the R programming language, students developed weekly R Markdown documents to solve simulated real-world analytical problems using authentic datasets, with an emphasis on transparency, documentation, and reproducibility. For their final projects, students were tasked with conducting independent, original research using open data related to New York City. Rather than working with pre-cleaned or artificial datasets, students engaged directly with messy, real-world data and were responsible for every step of the analytical workflow—from data acquisition and cleaning to analysis, visualization, and interpretation. A majority of projects utilized data from the NYC Open Data Portal, though students were encouraged to explore any open NYC-based data source that aligned with their research questions. Each project in this volume represents a complete, reproducible research artifact. Students were required to meet the following criteria: The data must be openly available The data must…
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