Big Apps Archive

Tonight at the IAC headquarters building in NYC, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winners of the Big Apps competition. Below is a list of the winners. We covered the Big Apps competition extensively here on CN so you may already be familiar with the winners. Congrats to the winners and to all of the developers who participated. It was simply awesome to see all of the creative ideas using the city’s data feeds.
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We covered the launch of the Big Apps competition here in NYC back in October. The voting opened this week for the “popular choice” and each day we will take a look at one category. Today’s category (and the last category) is “Living in NYC”. Remember you are only allowed one vote across all categories so make sure to look at all the apps before casting your vote.
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We covered the launch of the Big Apps competition here in NYC back in October. The voting opened this week for the “popular choice” and each day we will take a look at one category. Today’s category is “Exploring NYC“. Remember you are only allowed one vote across all categories so make sure to look at all the apps before casting your vote.
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We covered the launch of the Big Apps competition here in NYC back in October. The voting opened this week for the “popular choice” and each day we will take a look at one category. Today’s category is “Events“. Remember you are only allowed one vote across all categories so make sure to look at all the apps before casting your vote.

• BigMapple – BigMapple places NYC public and cultural events on an interactive map that uses data from Twitter and Flickr to show users what people are doing and saying throughout NYC.
• Localnext – LocalNext provides an intuitive way for New Yorkers to find the city’s latest and greatest events filtered by location, category, and timeframe. Use our interactive map tool and unique time slider to navigate across the city in the time and date you want.
• Make My Day – Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the number of things you can do in NYC? Or have you felt like you’ve seen it all?  Make My Day is an application that helps local residents and tourists experience all that this city has to offer by introducing an element of adventure and excitement into their schedule.
• NYC Events: Parks, Art and Music – A listing for each category is shown and after selecting an event, you will see additional details, including a map and the ability to send the event info to a friend (via email or text msg) as well as the ability to add the event to your calendar.
• Pop To It – Pop To It allows you to quickly and efficiently find an event that interests you by providing a unique user interface based on treemaps.

We covered the launch of the Big Apps competition here in NYC back in October. The voting opened this week for the “popular choice” and each day we will take a look at one category. Today’s category is “Developer Tools“. Remember you are only allowed one vote across all categories so make sure to look at all the apps before casting your vote.

• Actuatr – Actuatr is a platform that simplifies opening up data to developers. In one step, anyone can upload their data and immediately get a simple API with auto-generated documentation ready for developers to use for building innovative applications for the web or mobile devices.
• PushpinWeb – PushpinWeb provides a platform for public data to thrive.  Developers and everyday citizens can not only explore detailed data about any location in New York City, but can also use Processing-driven visualizations to power high-level understanding.
• Remarkable – Remarkable is a different kind of public feedback system, built for the NYC.gov Data Mine. The goal of this application is to organize and prioritize feedback in a way that is easily digestable for the decision-makers behind the data, improving the data we get.
• simpler/gov - Simpler/gov is a platform that connects people and data. Simpler/gov lets you interact with state and local government data on the web. The data is alive and active; you can ask multiple questions, get results instantly (in seconds), and then ask again.

We covered the launch of the Big Apps competition here in NYC back in October. The voting opened this week for the “popular choice” and each day we will take a look at one category. Today’s category is “Politics“. Remember you are only allowed one vote across all categories so make sure to look at all the apps before casting your vote.

• Nexttown – Nexttown lets you see in seconds who represents you and what they are doing for your community.  It also makes it easy to explore the city’s political landscape.
• OMB Executive Dashboard – Graphical display of New York City’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for over 80 City agencies and covered organizations such as the Transit Authority, Health and Hospitals Corporation and the Housing Authority.
• PrecinctsReporting NYC – PrecinctsReporting NYC is an interactive tool for mapping historical election results in New York City block-by-block. The tool includes most contested city and state races since 2005, including the 2009 mayoral race.
• PrimoSpot – PrimoSpot provides a service to the public to help them park more efficiently in crowded metropolitan areas.  Using this service, we hope people will spend less time driving around looking for a parking spot, using less gas and helping the environment in the process. (I’m thinking this one is mis-categorized)
• SMS Congressional District Lookup – The Mobile Congressional District Lookup application lets people lookup their congressional district and representatives using text messaging. To use it, take out your mobile phone and text the word DISTRICT to the number 30644.
• Who Represents Me? – By clicking on a point, a user can all of the legislative and head executive officials representing that location, including their city council member, state assembly member, state senator,governor, US  representative, US senators, and president.

We covered the launch of the Big Apps competition here in NYC back in October. The voting opened this week for the “popular choice” and each day we will take a look at one category. Today’s category is “Eating in NYC“. Remember you are only allowed one vote across all categories so make sure to look at all the apps before casting your vote. It looks like a lot of developers want to find a clean place to eat.

• Eat Clean.ly – Eat Clean.ly helps locate restaurants near you based on location, food type, and NYC inspection results.
• Food Inspectr – a simple iPhone optimized webpage that allows people to check and see if the restraunt they are at has violated any health codes.
• Ick City – Make the information provided by the City of New York Restaurant Inspections readily available and easily accessible.
• NYC BigApple Reporter – BigApple Reporter is a free personal photography application and web service that connects your iPhone to several Reporting Services that improve the quality of life for your family and your community.
• NYC Restaurant Scrutinizer – NYC Restaurant Scrutinizer provides an up-to-date breakdown of every NYC restaurant inspection result. Its simple, easy-to-use interface, puts roughly 19 thousand pages of essential information at your fingertip.
• NYC-Eats – NYC-Eats is a mobile restaurant search app which uses the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Restaurant Inspection Information to help consumers locate nearby restaurants.
• Restaurant inspection results – This web application displays the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Restaurant Inspection Results. 
• Soup Fly - Soup Fly lets you lookup New York City restaurant inspection scores by restaurant name or any location and view the scores along with maps/directions, menus, reviews, reservations, and online ordering.
• SporkNYC – SporkNYC views and locates restaurant health code violations using restaurant inspection data from the NYC DataMine.
• The NYC Daily Spoonful - This spatial visualization walks users through the daily ebbs and flows of food inspections in NYC. Users interact with a dynamic map and calendar to investigate violations in detail.
• You Are Where You Eat – This app which is written for the GPhone allows you to find restaurants with violations based on NYC Department of Health Data. By pressing on the map provided, icons will appear indicating establishments with food violations.
• Z Drinks – Using the Neighborhood Names GIS, the user is able to find food/drinks specials throughout the city based on neighborhood. The user is able to see the results in both a list view as-well-as populated on a map.

Leave your thoughts on the above apps in the comments and if you decided to place your vote for one of them.