New York City Participatory Budgeting Vote Results

Participatory Budgeting Projects contains records of community-submitted proposals for New York City's PBNYC initiative. The dataset includes project details, costs, vote counts, and geographic identifiers. It was published by data.cityofnewyork.us and last updated in February 2020.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between project Cost and Votes received to identify funding efficiency.
• Map project locations using Latitude and Longitude to visualize geographic distribution of proposals.
• Predict the Winner status of a project based on features like Category, Council District, and Borough Code.
• Examine temporal trends in public spending by aggregating projects by Vote Year.
• Assess demographic correlations by joining on Census Tract or NTA (Neighborhood Tabulation Area) codes.

Strengths

• Includes multiple geographic identifiers (BBL, Census Tract, NTA, Latitude, Longitude) for spatial analysis.
• Contains explicit vote counts (Votes) and funding amounts (Cost, BP Funding) for quantitative assessment.

Limitations

• Dataset freshness is low, with last update in February 2020, missing recent cycles.
• Unknown row count and sample size prevent assessment of statistical power.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Collected through the official Participatory Budgeting New York City (PBNYC) democratic process of public meetings and voting.

Time Range

Vote Year column indicates temporal coverage.

Freshness

Last updated 2020-02-08.

Geography

New York City, with granularity down to Community Board, Council District, and Census Tract.