On Broadway - our new interactive urban data visualization
Image and data sources used in the project:
660,000 Instagram photos from 2/2014-7/2014,
Twitter posts with images shared during same period,
8+ million Foursquare check-ins, 2009-2014
Google Street View images (variable dates),
22 million taxi pickups and drop-offs for 2013,
latest economic indicators from US Census Bureau (2013).
How to represent a "data city"? We did not want to show the data in a conventional way using only graphs and numbers. We also did not want to use another convention of showing spatial data – a map. The result of ou…
