Human data shows how we move in cities
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Human data shows how we move in cities
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Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#2This is pretty cool, although it would be nice to see the different types of transportation across the same city. I see dramatic differences in the visualizations, sure, but they seem as dramatic as the differences in the layout and structure of these cities.
While I'm giving feedback, I must say I had to pause and re-read this sentence many times: "Human helps people move almost twice as much in six weeks". As I'm not familiar with the app, I went straight to that sentence and was baffled about some person who helps people change their place of residence a lot more for 6 weeks, but a lot more... compared to what? Took a while to arrive at "An app named 'Human' helps get people to move around more than they otherwise would within six weeks of beginning usage".
Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#3This is pretty cool, although it would be nice to see the different types of transportation across the same city. I see dramatic differences in the visualizations, sure, but they seem as dramatic as the differences in the layout and structure of these cities. While I'm giving feedback, I must say I had to pause and re-read this sentence many times: "Human helps people move almost twice as much in six weeks". As I'm n…
you can see the different types of transportation across the same city if you see each city's page:
http://cities.human.co/posts/mexico.html
Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#4At least in Dublin, it seems to confuse Biking with Sailing (see north of Dun Laoghaire pier)
Otherwise very cool!
Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#5At least in Dublin, it seems to confuse Biking with Sailing (see north of Dun Laoghaire pier) Otherwise very cool!
I see also in Dublin, some naughty person had their phone on in an aeroplane :-) You can see the path of the plane landing and taxiing to/from the terminal
Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#6Perhaps the decay times on the trails is too long, but I can't really detect any patterns here, other than that people seem to walk, run, cycle and drive down roads. After a few mins, all this seems to do is highlight the road structure of a city. A shorter trail decay would highlight the people commuting and show activity for transport type by time of day.
Another interesting metric would be to adjust brightness based on length of journey.
Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#7Strava, a run/bike tracking app, released something similar with their data.
http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#3/-56.00000/50.00000/blue/bo...
Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#8Perhaps the decay times on the trails is too long, but I can't really detect any patterns here, other than that people seem to walk, run, cycle and drive down roads. After a few mins, all this seems to do is highlight the road structure of a city. A shorter trail decay would highlight the people commuting and show activity for transport type by time of day. Another interesting metric would be to adjust brightness bas…
Good point. I played around with different decay times a lot, but it was very hard to settle on a decay time and opacity settings that worked for most cities, since the data set from city to city was varying in size. If I would re-render the movies, I'd definitely do try renders with lower decay times, especially for cities like NY, LA, etc.
Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#9This is pretty cool, although it would be nice to see the different types of transportation across the same city. I see dramatic differences in the visualizations, sure, but they seem as dramatic as the differences in the layout and structure of these cities. While I'm giving feedback, I must say I had to pause and re-read this sentence many times: "Human helps people move almost twice as much in six weeks". As I'm n…
Thanks for the feedback.
We rendered visuals for different activities in all cities. Click one of the cities on the homepage for details. We've also shared all visuals (dark and light) and some bonus gifs on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/58chppkj2ckim7s/AAAchKhSL56mjaaiA...
Re: Human data shows how we move in cities
#10At least in Dublin, it seems to confuse Biking with Sailing (see north of Dun Laoghaire pier) Otherwise very cool!
Sharp. Thanks!
In some cases we mix up (slow) motorized transport and cycling. We only categorize walking, cycling, running, active (active at one location) and motorized transport, so any other moving activity might end up in one of those categories. For daily use our tracking is pretty accurate for most activity types and users can manually correct any mistakes.