Visualization of NYC Pizza Delivery Routes on PBS’s America Revealed
New York City pizza delivery routes were tracked with GPS in this visualization from the “Food Machine” episode of the PBS series America Revealed.
1776 map of Brooklyn and Wallabout Bay
Poll: Majority oppose New York City soda ban
It appears a majority of Americans aren’t too sweet on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed soda ban.
30 Minutes on Mass Transit in 20 World Cities
You’ve got 30 minutes and a bus pass. The world is your weirdly shaped blob.
These blobs represent the extent that you’d be able to travel on public transit in 30 minutes. The 20 maps below were made by Mapnificent, a new website created by Stefan Wehrmeyer that suck in Google Maps-friendly transit data to show just how much of the city you can cover in however much time you want to spend. A handy slider allows you to change your allotted time, and your starting point can be anywhere on the map.
As these maps reveal, 30 minutes on public transit can take you a surprisingly long way in some cities, and keep you severely contained in others. Miami, for example, offers a pretty tight window on the world, compared with transit-rich cities like London and New York.
Mapping How NYC Bike-Share Meshes With Jobs and Transit
Hungry for more bike-share maps? Yeah, us too. Thanks to Steven Romalewski, the director of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Mapping Service, we’ve got our fix.
In a post on his Spatiality blog, Romalewski uses GIS to analyze the 413 bike-share stations posted on DOT’s website so far. One map, shown above, shows each station with the size of the station displayed graphically. At a glance, you can see the number of docks per station decrease as you move away from employment centers and subway lines, or into Brooklyn and Queens. For an interactive version, click here.
New York City Positioned to be the US’s Next Tech City
A report released by the Center for an Urban Future has positioned New York City as the fastest growing tech sector in the country, outpacing Boston to become the U.S.’s #2 Tech Hub (only behind Silicon Valley).
Its rapid growth – a 28.7% increase of tech-related jobs in five years and a 32% increase in venture capital deals (compare that to the national average of -11%) – has been attributed to the diversification of its startup tech companies, focused not on creating new technologies, but on providing technological solutions to existing industries.
5th Ave Frogger is an attempt to imagine what the Frogger arcade game would be like if it was created today. This version of Frogger is similar to the original, except the traffic you dodge in 5th Ave Frogger is actually traveling down 5th Ave in New York City as you play.
Winners of Tap City, a Competition around a Drinking Fountain
One winner and one Finalist have recently been announced at Tap City, a competition around a drinking fountain. The contest asked undergraduate and graduate students to create a structure, installation, or experience around a forgotten fountain, the Duncan Dunbar Memorial Fountain in Greenwich Village, NYC, to devise a radically innovative proposal for the most particular of urban design sites.
Financial Times Unveils 70-Foot Interactive Wall in Grand Central Terminal
New York City data transparency law goes into effect
The 2010/2011 Feltron Biennial Report
Graphic designer Nicholas Felton (PopTech 2009) is obsessed with data. He knows how many songs he’s listened to and how much it costs him per mile to fly. Felton visualizes these numerous details in personal “Annual Reports.”
Data drawn from a random sample of New York City Yellow Cab GPS data collected in 2010.
Are you ready for warmer weather? Lovely, minimalist visualization of NYC famers’ market locations by information design studio MGMT.
