One of the most compelling trends in technology today is the open data and open governance movement. It's not without reason that no less than Tim Berners-Lee himself, the creator of the worldwide web and one of the most preeminent scholars of the Internet, is doing his latest work in getting more government data on the web: in an interview with The New York Times a few years ago he spoke to how even records as mundane as traffic statistics or weather data could drive tinkerers to "make government run better". New York City has been at the forefront of this movement: mayor Bloomberg formalized a citywide analytics team as the Mayor's Office for Data Analytics in 2013, and the effort has continued under Mayor De Blasio, with the city cementing its first Open Data Plan in July 2015. The resultant NYC Open Data Portal is populated with over 1500 datasets. It was, and is, the largest citywide open data portal in the world. Nevertheless, a good open data platform is more than a count; it's a function also of all of the maintenance and structure that goes into it. What's a "dataset