10 urban data visualization projects
I have just published in my blog a compilation of 10 examples of urban data visualizations.
Mapping America: Every City, Every Block
Mapping New York’s startup scene. Richard Florida has a great piece on why timing is right of NYC’s tech move as the new Silicon Valley.
via curiositycounts:
Create a City Forward Exploration
Explorations are the foundation of City Forward. They are made up of visualizations and text blocks that let you explore and identify interesting patterns, trends, and correlations about the cities and subjects that may reveal new insights and point to new areas of interest for further investigation.
Submit your own report by answering the questions “How long have you lived here?” and “How long do you plan to stay?” or just take a look at who makes up the borough.
An interesting application of the Ushahidi platform.
All the potholes fixed in the last month, from January 16 to February 15
The Department of Transportation just launched a Tumblog tracking fixed potholes. Watch your City at work.
(via craigkanarick)
Social Networks in Cities | Sustainable Cities Collective
Our previous two posts about The New City Landscape (NCL maps are based on twitter messages sent in urban areas) represent only one aspect of the data that was collected. For those maps we were focusing on the location at the moment of sending the message. Now we are looking into the social network of the same data set and visualise how users communicate and how they are interconnected. Using the @’s and RT’s in the messages, a network was constructed establishing links between users that send directed tweets or retweet someone else’s message. Very quickly these social networks become extremely complicated and computational intensive. Our old MacBook here struggled with the larger networks of London and New York, were there are 20000 or 40000 nodes respectively to be calculated.
Mapping Information - Britain From Above - BBC
A visualisation of Britain’s information economy with communication at its heart. View the tentacles of our national telephone network and the lines of data travelling around Britain and out into the world
via humanscalecities
(via smarterplanet)
Food Deserts and Priority Neighbourhoods in Toronto
Digital Urbanisms: How Segregated is Your City? Race and ethnicity Infographic
from - Infographic of the Day: How Segregated is Your City? | Fast Company
Recently, cartographer Bill Rankin produced an astounding map of Chicago, which managed to show the city’s areas of racial integration.
Eric Fischer saw those maps, and took it upon himself to create similar ones for…
