Month: June 2014

  • Camera Obscura

    A slipping cap on our ceiling created a camera obscura with our television.

  • 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…