Selected Work

Projects.

Machine learning, mapping, and network analysis, put to work on cities.

9 projects
2021 - 2023
2026

Projecting Much?

Every map is a choice wearing the costume of a fact. A tool that recenters the world on any point you click - plus 27 live projections and the survey marks that anchor the geoid.

D3.jsd3-geoTopoJSON
2023

Computer Vision for Ethnographic Research

Can a machine read a storefront? Teaching computers to spot neighborhood change in the signs themselves.

PythonEasyOCROpenCV
2022

Diversity in America

How diverse is your state? Four decades of immigration data on an interactive hex map.

D3.jsTypeScriptScrollama
2022

Street-Level Surveillance

Where US police have deployed cameras, facial recognition, and license plate readers - and the handful of vendors behind all of it.

D3.jsMapboxResearch
2022

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.

Kepler.glPythonGIS
2021

CitiBike Network Analysis

Does ridership shift between seasons? Mapped 204K Citi Bike trips across Jersey City and Hoboken as a directed graph.

PythonNetworkXPlotly
2022

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.

PythonTensorFlowScikit-learn
2021

Quality of Life of NYC Children

Most quality-of-life indices were built for adults. Built one for kids across all 55 NYC districts.

Pythonscikit-learnGeoPandas
2021

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.

PythonFoliumGeoPandas