FOILing NYC’s Taxi Trip Data
Update 6/16/2014: Many people have asked for this data since I published this post, and like a non -forward-thinking government, I’ve come …
Finding Your Inner Civic Hacker
He or she is in there… I promise! The technology landscape has evolved into a perfect storm open source tools and code, …
Gothamist’s Best Maps of 2013… brought to you by Open Data
(image from Andrew Hill’s outstanding and Open Data-driven PLUTO tour, included in Gothamist’s top maps of 2013) Gothamist recently published a recap …
An NYC Subway Map in the Style of Washington, D.C.’s
One of my prize possessions is an authentic 1991 Washington, D.C. Metrorail subway map. 6th grade me wrote a letter to someone …
A D3 Bubble Budget Visualization for NYC
You can check out this visualization at http://www.chriswhong.com/projects/nycbudget I remember being blown away the first time I saw Shan Carter’s awesome interactive …
Concept for an Open Source E-hailing Platform
I remember the day Uber came to town last fall. NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service has its home in the Puck …
The Case for Microcontainerization
I think I just invented a word. There is exactly one result on Google for the term “microcontainerization”. For the last 9 …
Visualizing the MTA’s Turnstile Data
Here’s the Vimeo version. I set out several months ago to visualize the MTA’s turnstile dataset. It’s updated weekly and resides here. …
West Side Line & Selkirk Hurdle
I’ve been studying freight mobility in Manhattan with my Captstone Team, and I recently started digging into the history of Manhattan’s only …
3D GIS Flyover of NYC Income Data
3D Animation showing extruded median income in New York City. Made with ArcGIS. Data: American Community Survey 2008-2011 3 year estimates.