urban planning using apis
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Jan Vormann 2007
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Urban PlanningThrough Geo-Enabled Data
Jan Vormann 2007
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Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information".
- Michael Friendly
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All good visualizations share these qualities
Thought-provokingInstructionalData Dense Actionable
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John Snow’s Cholera Map
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We emit dataconstantly
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The exponential growth in the amount of data that is collected and published by users tethered to their devices on a daily
basis has lead to a renaissance in spacial information visualization.
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How can urban planners embrace data emission to influence the technical, political, and communal process of planning the
design for urban environments?
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Game Designers Do It
2Fort Death Map Team Fortress 2
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Goldrush Death Map Team Fortress 2
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Unlike in the past publicly available data can now be processes by smaller institutions and individuals thanks to cheap
processing power & high-level APIs.
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Many businesses now expose a portion of the dataset and encourage collaboration and mash-up opportunities, which
can provide unforeseen insight into the original data.
What can geo-locative data tell you about your communities?
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Visualization of the Netflix Queue
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/10/nyregion/20100110-netflix-map.html
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Fundrace.org
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Locals vs. Tourists
London
Geo-tagged photos collected from the Flickr API.
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Locals vs. Tourists
New York
This data was collected completely free.
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Locals vs. Tourists
San Francisco
But what is it worth?
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Locals vs. Tourists
Paris
What is your target audience already broadcasting?
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Visualizing the Costs of Incarceration in the US
“It cost 17 million dollars to imprison 109 People from these 17 blocks in 2003. We call these million dollar blocks. On a financial scale prisons are becoming the predominant governing institution in the neighborhood.”
- Laura Kurgan and Sarah Williams in Metropolis, Jan. 2012
From Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab: Million Dollar Blocks
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