The New York Public Library is training computers to recognize building shapes and other information from old city maps, and they need your help! Take a few minutes to help hone the data; no experience or knowledge required! This is a very neat experiment in crowdsourcing data aggregation for use to improve civic society.
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Check out this FluNearYou video, which is the result of a phenomenal collaboration by a hospital, a public health association, and a funder. The government should be monitoring and taking action to prevent this national threat, but they’re not doing much of anything right now (or ever?), so it’s lucky that this project is stepping… Continue reading
Neat maps used to tell New York stories that come from tax data. All my favorite things!
Amazingly detailed map of North American English dialects. It’s complicated to look at but really fun to explore. [Related update: The film If These Knishes Could Talk, which is about New York Accents, premieres tonight. There are great dialect videos on the site, too.]
From What Food Desert Maps Get Wrong About How People Eat, which highlights mobility as an often left-out factor. Spot on.
Originally I was hoping to do some data visualizations with really old census stuff, but then I stumbled upon all of these amazing ones that had already been done. Jonathan Soma, the Brainery co-founder who created A Handsome Atlas, which is basically a treasure trove of awesome data depictions. He’s doing a great job of… Continue reading
Canadian makes very cool map of United States
This map uses dirt from every state, and it’s made by an 85-year-old retired ad agency art director. His favorite soils came from Colorado (“quite reddish”), Maine (“pale and sandy”), and Mississippi and Alabama (“deeply colored with iron oxide”). The soils have varying degrees of acidity, and each is a slightly different color. Read more about… Continue reading Canadian makes very cool map of United States
Cool game, cool community building, cool report. Thumbs up.
The Knight Foundation recently released an awesome report on their grant to Macon, Georgia for a social game designed by Area/Code to build community through local currency. These are a bunch of my favorite things. (Games! Philanthropy! Sociology! Money!) You really must read more about it, because I can’t embed any here and it’s too… Continue reading Cool game, cool community building, cool report. Thumbs up.
Mad Men Mapped in NYC
Even though all but the pilot episode of Mad Men have been filmed in LA, NYC is where the show is set and all of the action happens. WNYC has mapped some of the places Peggy, Don, Roger, and others frequent; just click on each spot to read when we saw it. See any favorites… Continue reading Mad Men Mapped in NYC
Worldwide Mural Map
A lot of neat murals to discover! This is a very much incomplete database, but those available on the map are fun to explore. Also, you can submit murals that you have seen. Let me know if you do!Worldwide Mural Map
Jen Bokoff 
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