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Where are the roaches in NYC - the Great Urban Hack
- lkozma 16y agoNice idea but looks pretty random .. perhaps too little data ?
- jcl 16y agoI thought the same thing... It needs a finer scale, and maybe some adjustment for density of restaurants, since that probably influences the frequency of health inspector calls. It looks like there's a nice gradient along Long Island, though. :)
- mshron 16y agoThe copy doesn't make it clear enough, but we're actually doing our best to adjust for small samples with a little empirical Bayesian magic. As the number of samples (inspections) goes down, the result is closer to the mean for the whole city.
- nowarninglabel 16y agoSo the answer is, everywhere. =)
- scottyallen 16y agoI wonder how much this is a measure of the diligence of various inspectors versus a measure of roaches being present. Something like this could be highly influenced by a sampling bias...
- qjz 16y agoDoesn't this really track where the city health inspectors have been?
- dminor 16y agoYeah, would be interesting to see a map colored with overall health inspector visits and see if there's a correspondence.
- MiguelHudnandez 16y agoI'd love to see this animated over a few months.
- Splines 16y agoYeah, I tried clicking on the archives, hoping I could put something together myself, and the buttons don't work (I'm using Chrome). :(
- VladRussian 16y agoi clicked expecting something like roach marking and tracking hack. Reading the comments it looks though that even marking and tracking of health inspectors would already be a start.
- its_raining 16y agoThere's a cooler interface for tracking bedbugs in NYC at http://samizdat.cc/bdbgs/ http://samizdat.cc/bdbgs/