Building a Custom Downloader for NYC’s PLUTO Data
I recently launched a custom download tool for NYC’s PLUTO data, which you can check out at http://chriswhong.github.io/plutoplus. Here’s a little bit …
Thoughts on Open Data Part 2
This is part 2 of a blog post containing some of the philosophy on Open Data I’ve developed over the past couple …
Thoughts on Open Data Part 1
After being an open data consumer/visualizer/analyzer/advocate/enthusiast for the past few years, and spending the last two years actually working in the industry …
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 …
An Experimental Twist on the D3 Bubble Chart
Recently I was playing with charting some data that has a very large range of values, and some outliers with REALLY large values relative …
Recreating the Union Square Clock with Javascript
On 14th street, just south of Union Square there’s a great big digital clock on the side of a building… well, the first …
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 …