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Kirthi
Balakrishnan
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Urban Data Analyst & Civic Technologist
Curious about cities. Handy with data. Building tools to connect the two.
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Computer Vision for Ethnographic Research
— Can a machine read a storefront? Teaching computers to spot neighborhood change in the signs themselves.
Diversity in America
— How diverse is your state? Four decades of immigration data on an interactive hex map.
Urban Mobility Index
— Can you predict a walkability score for any neighborhood from street and transit data alone? Only for cities the model has already seen.
Pedestrian Activity & SF Hills
— Do San Francisco's steep blocks stop people from walking? We expected walls. The data pushed back - a third of recorded trips cross 'significant' slopes.
CitiBike Network Analysis
— Does ridership shift between seasons? Mapped 204K Citi Bike trips across Jersey City and Hoboken as a directed graph.
Street-Level Surveillance
— Where US police have deployed cameras, facial recognition, and license plate readers - and the handful of vendors behind all of it.
Quality of Life of NYC Children
— Most quality-of-life indices were built for adults. Built one for kids across all 55 NYC districts.
Got a Ride? Chicago Rideshare Equity
— Do Uber and Lyft pickups cluster in white, wealthy Chicago neighborhoods? Against 42M trips, no - they cluster where the trips are.