3D Printing Manhattan
It’s my very first “thing”. I’m fairly new to 3D printing, and have had my build-it-yourself printrbot for a couple of months… …
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 …
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 …
Some Viz – Philly’s Stolen Bicycles
Click to View the Visualization I dropped in on the fellow Code for America Brigade in Philadelphia last weekend, and they happened …
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 …