Introduction For my final project, I chose to focus on NYC’s community gardens. Over the last few weeks, I have been walking throughout my neighborhood and I saw several community gardens and I was interested in discovering more information about them. I wanted to know how many there were throughout the boroughs, which borough and……

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Introduction In the early months of 2020, Covid-19 changed the world in a dramatic way. When the virus reached the United States, nowhere was hit harder than New York City. Peaking at several hundred deaths per day, the city went from business-as-usual, to a state of emergency in a matter of weeks. Now, many months……

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Introduction This project will give a visual overview of the New York City MTA subway system. I will be analyzing its ridership system specifically. My goal will be to analyze the weekly, monthly, and yearly ridership. I will visually break down and explain ridership by Borough and subway stations. I will also make a comparison……

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Introduction For this project I want to create a visualization showing the most filmed locations in New York City.  This data will be from the NYC Open Data project which has data from applications for file shoots and other media type items across the city.  The data comes from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment The……

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Introduction Rats are New Yorker’s most familiar neighbors. In this visualization, I showed the activity of New York’s rats activities in the past 10 years with an animated heat map. I also introduce a rent rate map which indicates the human activities and overlapped them to see how the two major animals: human and rat,……

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INTRODUCTION New York City entered the first two phases of reopening in June 2020 after a 2-month stay-at-home order to stop the spread of COVID-19. Around the same time, the city saw what many residents felt was an unprecedented increase in illegal fireworks. For this mapping lab using Carto, I wanted to explore both the……

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Introduction The history of human settlement is a topic that would naturally lend itself to mapping, save for the fact that the data is extremely limited, as historians and archeologists only have so much to work with. So I was excited to find this dataset of 6,000 years of urbanization from Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma,……

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Introduction For my first mapping exercise, I took the opportunity to investigate the conclusions of my charts and graphs lab, exploring a segments of the DC Marijuana Arrest Rates 2012-2017. As the tableau dashboard illustrates below (Figure 1), the overall rates of marijuana arrests decreased after marijuana possession was decriminalized in 2014 but then started……

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Yisha Su INTRODUCTION Across the whole nation and the globe, we face common issues of global warming. Global warming and sea-level rise are becoming severe and worse, New York City, as one of the major coastal cities, is facing the increasing challenge of the flood surge. Sea Level Rise Maps that predict flood surge zones……

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Background With bars and restaurants closed for indoor dining as part of COVID-19 shutdowns, New Yorkers witnessed a de facto legalization of outdoor drinking, or at least some outdoor drinking. In the United States, alcohol is judged as a tolerable vice if not an outright hobby, and I suspect the harsh penalties for consuming it……

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Introduction The United States is home to a wealth of species across its many different climates and ecosystems. More than 200,000 native species have been identified, but only around 21,000 of these species’ conservation status is known which leaves about one-third either vulnerable, imperiled, critically imperiled, or already extinct (Holsinger, K.E.). This project aims to……

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Introduction While browsing the NYC Open Data website, I came across a dataset on New York City’s public recycling bins. I was intrigued to analyze this data because I haven’t seen any recycling bins throughout the city. I have always noticed trash bins filled with various plastic bottles and aluminum cans and wondered if that……

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Introduction In the early months of 2020, Covid-19 changed the world in a dramatic way. When the virus reached the United States, nowhere was hit harder than New York City. Peaking at several hundred deaths per day, the city went from business-as-usual, to a state of emergency in a matter of weeks. Now, many months……

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Introduction In this project, we will look at the 2020 estimate of the employment rates, unemployment rates, and labor force for New York City and California sub-county areas of Los Angeles. The dataset was pulled from their Local Area Unemployment Statistics ( https://www.labor.ny.gov/stats/LSLAUS.shtm). The Local Area Unemployment Statistics for (LAUS) and The Local Area Unemployment……

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Yisha Su Introduction Writing letters is a traditional way of communication. As a lover of the art of letter writing, I have a particular soft spot for sending and receiving letters. So I set out to explore people’s networks transmitting letters for my network analysis and visualization project. Materials Gephi is a free, open-source software……

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Introduction For this project I explored the bikes and subway paths across the five boroughs of New York City.  After checking out other bike maps I realized not many show a connection to Subway routes and stations.  I became curious on how many station routes run parallel with bike paths and if bike paths could provide the……

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Introduction The illicit drugs transiting the Atlantic into Spain from the Americas area are of growing concern to Spain and other countries. Between 2007 and 2009, police wiretapped and instigated four groups involved in cocaine trafficking in Spain. My visualization tries to show the network within these criminal organizations. Tools and Materials In this project, I……

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INTRODUCTION In 2003, a group of scientists published a study on a community of dolphins living in a fjord off the coast of New Zealand called the Doubtful Sound. They observed the associations between the dolphins over the course of 7 years and concluded that the particular geographic conditions led to a unique forming of……

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Introduction When a Facebook page for a business, organization, or public figure ‘likes’ the page of another business, that business establishes a connection that all Facebook users are able to see. A mutual like between two organizational pages is not only a sign of support between the organizations, but is also mutually beneficial for extending……

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Gephi lab report by Kyle Palermo, July 7, 2019. Background Campaign contributions are largely public record in the United States and a variety of web-based tools allow us to see lists of donors/contributions to various candidates and some basic trends of where campaign cash is coming in from (see the FEC data portal or OpenSecrets,……

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