Data Through Design is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. This year’s theme is NaN. In computing, NaN, standing for not a number, is a numeric data type value representing an undefined or unrepresentable value. In many ways, data is meant to represent often unrepresentable features about the spaces, places, and people around us. This presents us with a problem – how are the fundamentally unquantifiable things, the things that should otherwise return a computational error statement – the NaN – actually being assigned numerical values that affect life in the city? Our theme this year is “Not a Number” to speak to the ways in which space and place are being transformed and shaped by the numbers that are meant to represent complexity in the everyday. We ask our artists to reflect on the stories within our city’s open data that speak to the undefined or unrepresentable value of the things that the data may be hiding.
As the real estate industry pushes forward into a data-driven future, one thing is clear: those who have true trust in their data and the pipelines that feed their insights will excel in an AI-driven future.
The multifamily real estate sector is on the cusp of a data awakening, and so far the NMHC OPTECH 2024 conference is definitely a catalyst for change.
We are headed to sunny San Diego to meet up with the MRI Software user community for their 2024 Ascend conference.
