A site to explore cities, machines, and people at varying senses and scales. Updated by Ar Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, MIT, CUNY and more.
What a difference a year makes. When she presented in my class last year, Jennifer Sta. Ines was a new colleague who presented her work as a GIS specialist for NYC DOT’s bike share program. Now Jennifer is both a friend and collaborator on the MindRider project, so it was great to hear an update […]
continue reading Session 4: Transportation Planning & AnalysisToday’s session followed the usual macro/micro format, starting with a guest lecturer to provide big-picture context, and ending with hands-on labs for more in-depth skill development. Our guest lecturer, Lela Prashad, is Chief Data Scientist at NiJeL.org and technical adviser to my MIT thesis project, OpenIR. She specializes in geospatial data analysis, particularly with multi-spectral […]
continue reading NYU Session 3: Applications of Remote SensingThe range of student backgrounds and voices continues to engage, excite, and make for lively discussion and experimentation. As Anthony Vanky said during the MIT workshop, I take a “mile-wide, inch deep” approach to structuring graduate workshops, with the aim of giving students a fat set of tools for going a mile deep on their […]
continue reading NYU Session 2: Data Journalism and SensorsIn today’s first session, we got situated with basic housekeeping + intros, some background lecture, and some hands-on exercises. I’m very pleased to see a few different departments represented in this class: ITP of course, CUSP (NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress), and Journalism. Students represent a wide range of previous experience, from animation, to computer […]
continue reading NYU Session 1: Orientation