CUSP x Transit Techies | Christian Casazza on The Open Data Stack

The Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon and Transit Techies welcome you to attend a talk by software engineer Christian Casazza on The Open Data Stack.
Open-source is transforming the data engineering space. By combining tools like Parquet, Arrow, Datafusion, DuckDB, and Dagster, data product creation can achieve a collective 1000x improvement in cost, performance, and simplicity. Plus — thanks to LLMs, it has never been easier to quickly learn how to build with these tools!
Join Christian Casazza, Data Engineer, where he’ll speak about The Open Data Stack. He’ll show you how to use these open-source tools to ingest transit data from government data portals/3rd party APIs, run a SQL transformation pipeline, and visualize the results as a live web app (all for free from your laptop!). Then, learn how to work with an LLM like ChatGPT to write ETL code, build SQL queries, and create frontend apps.
Connect with NYU Tandon CUSP and Transit Techies NYC at this talk and enjoy networking over light bites and refreshments. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own food.
The event will be held in Room 1201 on the 12th Floor of 370 Jay St. We hope to see you there!

Visitor Information
Please visit the NYU Tandon website for directions and a campus map. Advance registration through Eventbrite is required for campus access at NYU for external guests. Attendees who are not current students, faculty, or staff at NYU, including alumni, are asked to register using a personal email address.

About CUSP at NYU Tandon
The Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to applying science, technology, engineering, math, and social sciences to serve urban communities worldwide.

Founded as a partnership between NYU and the City of New York, CUSP leads research, educational, and entrepreneurial initiatives that advance the science of cities. By applying novel insights to urban issues, we develop data- and technology-driven approaches that drive positive impact. With an additional focus on training future leaders, CUSP offers interdisciplinary academic programs in applied urban science and informatics for graduate students and professionals.

CUSP also engages with stakeholders across city agencies, start-ups, industry players, community-based organizations, and nonprofits to address urgent socioeconomic, environmental, and infrastructural challenges. The center’s ultimate objective is to improve urban quality of life by using data to innovate and refine inclusive, equitable, and sustainable practices for cities everywhere.

About Transit Techies NYC
Bringing together the technologists who love transit and the transit enthusiasts who hack! We'll have speakers present transit-related projects. Presenters may be household hackers, data scientists, researchers, product developers, or you! All presentations will be technical and awesome. Learn more about Transit Techies NYC and join the MeetUp Group.

Host or Publisher NYU Center for Urban Science + Progress