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 2
In Part 1 of In Search of Hess’ Triangle, I presented some historical maps of the area and did some analysis using …
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 …
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, …