Building Static Vector Tile Trees from GeoJson
On my team at the NYC Department of City Planning, we have been working with vector tiles and mapboxGL to create fast …
This Ugly Map Got a Lot of Attention Today
Be careful what you release into the wilds of the internet! A few days ago, mostly out of curiosity, I created the …
A Chrome Extension to Inject NYC Subway Data into streeteasy.com
I love streeteasy.com. The site has everything for the NYC apartment-seeker: High quality listings, uber-granular searching, discussion forums, and lots of great …
Anatomy of a Civic Hack: Freeing Baltimore’s Real-time Bus Data
This morning, the appropriately named transit app TransitApp released a blog post on medium, entitled “How we saved Baltimore $600,000 in one day“. …
My First Data Art: NYC Taxi Defrag
In my data visualization NYC Taxis: A Day in the Life, there is a D3 chart at the bottom of the screen …
FOILing NYC’s *Boro* Taxi Trip Data
This one’s going to be short and sweet. A couple of weeks ago, a contact at the TLC informed me that the …
Should I Stay or Should I Go? NYC Taxis at the Airport
For the past year or so, I’ve ditched the lines at the airport taxi stands and taken an Uber. I compare …
In Search of Hess’ Triangle – Part 1
In late July, this Atlas Obscura article about “New York’s Smallest Piece of Private Property” came hurtling out of the internet and …
Taxi Techblog 2: Leaflet, D3, and other Frontend Fun
This is part 2 of my techblog about NYC Taxis: A Day in the Life. In part 1, I showed how I …
Taxi TechBlog 1: Data Prep and Backend
A week ago, I published NYC Taxis: A Day in the Life and it went a little bit viral. This seems to …