Introduction Before studying in New York City, I visited the city three times, as a tourist. I could still remember how each time I was overwhelmed by the intensity and diversity of everything that was going on around in the city. Even after staying here for almost two years, it still concerns me especially when……

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Introduction In 2008, the New York City Department of Transportation conducted research on alternative forms of transportation and published a strategic plan. Surprisingly, according to statistics, over 50% of all automobile trips happened in the city were under 3 miles, within the distances of pleasant bicycle trips. In 2009, a bike-share program was first proposed……

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INTRODUCTION Have you ever wonder where can buy the best dessert in New York City? There are all kinds of authentic dessert in New York City because of its largest multi-immigrants environment in the world. As a dessert lover, I would like to explore the relationship between dessert shop distributions and Manhattan context. In this……

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Introduction Rivalries and wars were born along with humanity. Human deprives resources of the outside, from the environment or from others in order to maintain their own survivals. And wars are the critical presentation of such a need. Thus, the history of humanity is actually a history of wars: the rise and falls of tribes,……

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Introduction and Inspiration Is New York City dangerous? Maybe – having been portrayed in numerous movies throughout decades, the Big Apple seemed to be a city of crime. In David Fincher’s renowned suspense film Seven, for example, the city was painted as a wet, grim urban environment ridden with horrible crimes. However on the other……

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Introduction One of the many names that New York City is famously known by is ‘Concrete Jungle’.  I thought it would be interesting to see how populated the city is by greens. NYC Parks & Recreation and partner organisations organised street trees census ‘TreesCount!’ in the year 2015, under which volunteers and staff collected data……

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Privacy on the Internet is such a big issue currently. The privacy is not only dependent on social media and browsing websites. It also depends on the Internet service providers you use. A public WiFi network this big also brings a new set of security risks. Therefore in this week I decided to do Mapping……

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INTRODUCTION As a New Yorker, I spend a lot of time traveling on the subway every day, and I believe many people do as well. When we travel underground, our laptops are not able to connect the network. Once we have an emergency which requires a network connection on your laptop(like your client is requesting……

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Introduction and Inspiration Is New York City dangerous? Maybe – having been portrayed in numerous movies throughout decades, the Big Apple seemed to be a city of crime. In David Fincher’s renowned suspense film Seven, for example, the city was painted as a wet, grim urban environment ridden with horrible crimes. However on the other……

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Introduction Census Tracts were established by the Bureau of Census for analyzing populations. A “Census Tract” is generally smaller than a City but larger than a Block Group or Census Block. The general average of a Census Tract is 4,000. In NYC, Census Tracts can range from 0 to just under 29,000. In this visualization,……

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Introduction According to The National Bureau of Economic Research, the number of fast food restaurants in the United States have more than doubled over the past thirty years. They are almost everywhere and with the convenience and lower cost to eat, people keep coming back for their calorie-dense food made with unhealthy ingredients. At the……

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Introduction Launched as an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, Made in NYC works to support a vibrant manufacturing community within the five boroughs of New York City. Made in NYC offers their member companies workshops ranging from photography shoots to marketing and promotional lessons from expert fellows from a variety of backgrounds.……

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Introduction Although audiobooks and e-books are developing rapidly, there are still many people who are obsessed with the atmosphere in the library. Besides the normal readers，every day there are a lot of tourists who come to visit the famous public libraries in New York. New York has a lot of libraries so how do people……

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Introduction Hospitals are one of the fundamental infrastructures to a city. They carry the responsibilities of curing diseases and handling accidents. In contemporary city life, car accidents are one of the greatest cause of casualties. On average, there are 290 people die in new york city because of vehicle accidents, and there are more injuries.……

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INTRODUCTION In this project, I did a Carto map for my personal interests: Museum and Galleries and Coffee and Tea Shops, so I want to create an index map to display the distribution of museum, galleries and coffee and tea shops in New York City. I also collected the data about Public Art Exhibitions which……

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As the nation’s largest bike-share program, Citi Bike helps people in New York City to move around in a fast, fun and affordable way. On my previous report Citi Bike in April, I received feedback stating that the heatmap should be removed from the dashboard and displayed on its own as an epilogue. Therefore in……

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To look up into the sky is to wonder just how far we can go. To look at a map is to wonder just how many options there are. For a country as large as the United States of America, and within the context of air travel, the answers are, respectively: quite far and quite……

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INTRODUCTION As a fan of Marvel Universe, I almost watched every important movie in their main storylines. However, I am curious about the rest of the heros which I have not to know maybe because they only show in the comic books or they appear rarely. Therefore, I used Gephi to visualize all the heroes……

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Data collection During the time of my undergraduate I was working on the designing of airport as my thesis project. During this process I was really interested in the airline and their connectivity to other airport. before finalizing data i went through various number of types of data based on trees and social network. But……

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INTRODUCTION One of the initial attempts to map networks in social structures was made by a German primary school teacher Johannes Delitsch. He built a friendship network upon the students of his class from 1880 to 1881. The network delineates reciprocity among students, and considers the influence of class ranking order on their relationships. I……

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