Blaise OSS

Open-source software & research for civic data.

Python for NYC civic data — 311, subway accessibility, shared geography — and reproducible-research tooling for causal / econometric work that generalizes beyond the city.

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Toolkits

NYC civic data

nyc-geo-toolkit
nyc-geo-toolkitstable
pip install nyc-geo-toolkit

Shared geography foundation — boundaries, normalization, and spatial helpers

DocsPyPIv0.4.1
nyc311
nyc311stable
pip install "nyc311[all]"

311 complaint analysis — SDK, CLI, and a factor-factory adapter

DocsPyPIv1.0.3
subway-access
subway-accessstable
pip install "subway-access[factor-factory,tearsheets]"

NYC subway accessibility — stations, outages, and tract-level need

DocsPyPIv0.5.1

AI / ML / Data Science

citeformer
citeformerstable
pip install citeformer

Verifiably-cited LLM text via constrained decoding

DocsPyPIv0.3.0
factor-factorystable
pip install "factor-factory[all]"

Panel + engine framework for causal / econometric analysis

DocsPyPIv1.0.3
jellycellstable
pip install "jellycell[server]"

Plain-text notebooks with content-hashed caching

DocsPyPIv1.4.0

Featured

Rat Containerization and Complaint Volume: Did NYC's Mandatory Bin Rollout Causally Reduce Rodent Sightings?

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The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) rolled out mandatory bin containerization in two phases. The **pilot** (July 2023) required nine lower-Manhattan community districts (MN 01–09) to store commercial and residential waste in hard-sided receptacles rather than expose

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Research

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