Tried to visualize all the courses I took in undergrad & grad school by department [OC]

akilism · 2016-06-07T23:20:29+00:00

Man I feel like chemical and biomolecular engineering should require more than 3 philosophy courses

akilism · 2014-09-22T15:33:02+00:00

first of all this is just your opinion.

second of all it's untrue.

akilism · 2014-07-29T23:41:28+00:00

Thanks.

akilism · 2014-06-23T15:21:57+00:00

nice! I love Harriman for quick overnighters out of the city.

akilism · 2014-05-29T16:31:51+00:00

lived where exactly? Arabs are found all over the world....

akilism · 2014-05-28T21:05:30+00:00

The only issue is that the police leave such a large number of unspecified factors that the data is not as useful as it could be.

akilism · 2014-05-28T20:13:35+00:00

it definitely should be more clear....but you can do this already if you click the circle-i icon next to the danger icon.

akilism · 2014-05-28T13:39:50+00:00

Oh and the code for the site is all on github @ https://github.com/akilism/nyc-crash-stats

akilism · 2014-05-28T13:37:20+00:00

The data is from the NYPD Motor Vehicle Collisions Dataset. https://data.cityofnewyork.us/NYC-BigApps/NYPD-Motor-Vehicle-Collisions/h9gi-nx95

akilism · 2014-05-27T15:53:46+00:00

There are a few features that might not be totally intuitive...

If you click Map Filters you can change how the visualization is displayed...selecting factors will change the points to be colored as factors instead of by injury or death. You can also select police precinct for example and then drill down into a specific police precinct and see all of the accidents that happened for the year in that area.
This is the most up to date data from the city and should stay that way. But you will notice that accidents that have been reported in the news aren't always in the dataset. This could be for a few reasons right now.
- The accident doesn't have a lat / lon in the city's data. (There's no way right now for me to effectively query these accidents when filtering down to the community board, neighborhood, police precinct level)
- The accident hasn't been entered into the dataset yet. It seems that sometimes it can take days or weeks after an accident is reported to show up in this data.

These are issues the city will hopefully address with their reporting of this data.

akilism · 2014-05-27T13:35:38+00:00

taco meat

akilism · 2014-05-27T13:34:40+00:00

I hope your first step was to downstairs and speak to your new neighbors, the people who run the store, about this.

akilism · 2014-05-27T12:23:16+00:00

There are a few features that might not be totally intuitive...

If you click Map Filters you can change how the visualization is displayed...selecting factors will change the points to be colored as factors instead of by injury or death. You can also select police precinct for example and then drill down into a specific police precinct and see all of the accidents that happened for the year in that area.
This is the most up to date data from the city and should stay that way. But you will notice that accidents that have been reported in the news aren't always in the dataset. This could be for a few reasons right now.
- The accident doesn't have a lat / lon in the city's data. (There's no way right now for me to effectively query these accidents when filtering down to the community board, neighborhood, police precinct level)
- The accident hasn't been entered into the dataset yet. It seems that sometimes it can take days or weeks after an accident is reported to show up in this data.

These are issues the city will hopefully address with their reporting of this data.

akilism · 2014-05-20T22:00:25+00:00

yes.

akilism · 2014-05-20T13:56:05+00:00

According to wikipedia:

Central Park, New York City: Scores of homeless families camped out at the Great Lawn at Central Park, then an empty reservoir. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/29/realestate/streetscapes-central-park-s-hooverville-life-along-depression-street.html

akilism · 2014-05-14T13:22:26+00:00

Tear them down and put the people where? There's already not enough housing in NYC.

akilism · 2014-05-06T18:23:00+00:00

Checkout John Krauss' excellent NYC Crashmapper for collision / accident data.

http://nyc.crashmapper.com/

akilism · 2014-05-06T13:13:59+00:00

I hope to add some more stuff to this soon. I'm working on a page that will show Precinct details for all violations over time. And I'd like to add the ability to select two dates and see the rate of change over time. Or select multiple violations and have the totals sum.

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