A slipping cap on our ceiling created a camera obscura with our television.
Month: June 2014
Calling Data Anonymization Experts
With the ever increasing amount of open data, I’m having a surprising difficulty in tracking down best practices for anonymizing data. I’ve started collecting some, and I’m sure there are lot of people out there with brilliant expertise to share.
Content after the break, or drop some knowledge here.
NYC Taxi GPS
Chris Whong got a hold of a lot of GPS data for NYC taxis, using the cleverest hack of all: He asked nicely.
Not sure what I want to do with this yet, but spend an evening putting the basics together, and drew this from a small subset of the taxi dropoff locations. I love how the slightly fuzzy data lines up with street locations, and looks like the skeletons of pressed leaves.
There’s also an impressive zoomable map with both pickup and dropoff data by @enf.
[ hat tip to: @j0el ]