For our French-speaking friends, this is a very informative video by Philippe Gargov about John Snow and the role of cartography in combating epidemic disease. It was inspired by our ebook on Urban Cartography ❤️: morphocode.com/urban-cartogra…

Some of our favorite dot-density maps come from the 1915 Report to the Civic Transportation Committee for Toronto. The report features a ton of excellent maps covering topics like passenger movement, daily traffic volumes, and population density. maps.library.utoronto.ca/datapub/digita… #dataviz

Great work visualizing outbreak dynamics!

From 1965 to 1969, Hansjörg Mayer published 26 issues of an influential visual poetry broadsheet named after Futura typeface. Some of our favorite pieces include Peter Schmidt's "programmed squares," Frieder Nake's "computer grafik," and Wolf Vostell's "de coll age." 🤓

I made my first webmap! I've been trying to learn new skills so I built a webmap of NYC land use. I used QGIS, HTML, CSS, JS, and Mapbox to build it. I'm happy with how it turned out! Play with it here: bit.ly/2E3kCoN Thank you Morphocode your tutorial is amazing!

"A city's racial and ethnic mix is a product of history and geography." - love this week's post by City Observatory ! It presents data on the white/non-white dissimilarity index to show the level of racial segregation in the 50 largest US metro areas. cityobservatory.org/most_segregate…

A wonderful tool by ITDP explaining what walkability is, how to measure it, and why cities that are good for babies are good for the entire population.👏 pedestriansfirst.itdp.org

Learn more about our launch of MTA's new Live Subway Map. Geometric lines of the city meet the organic curves of nature. Try it out: map.mta.info. work.co/news/mta-new-l…

Learn more about the design and development of the MTA NYC Subway "live map" in a new short documentary by Gary Hustwit. Great work by Work & Co via Floor Plan Croissant vimeo.com/469980256

Apollo's archives provide some great examples of interface design. Hundreds of controls and displays were located in the cabin of the command module. The four basic types were toggle switches, rotary switches, thumbwheels, and push-buttons.🚀hq.nasa.gov/alsj/CSM10_Dis…

🥳 Explorer is on Planetizen 's 2020 annual list of Top Websites for Urban Planning. The list also includes other awesome projects like the MTA Live Subway Map, the 15-Minute City App, and the Transit Costs Project. Check them out!🙏Thanks James Brasuell 🚌 🚇 planetizen.com/features/11153…

👇This sounds like an interesting online seminar on urban informatics by CUSP at NYU Tandon and Dan O'Brien

Here is a sneak peek of our forthcoming story on How to measure diversity. Diversity reflects the variety in land use mix, income groups, and demographics within a geographic area. Paradoxically, the most diverse cities are often the most segregated.

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"Machine learning is an ostensibly technical field crashing increasingly on human questions." – Brian Christian (The Alignment Problem) Some current readings that are shaping our thoughts: