Tenderloin?
It's a neighborhood in San Francisco - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_San_Francisco .
Noise Visualization in the Tenderloin by Movity (YC W10)
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Re: Noise Visualization in the Tenderloin by Movity (YC W10)
#22Just a couple days ago, I was thinking it'd be cool to have a "noise" layer on Google Maps, but I figured it would be too hard to get good resolution over a large area.
We're working on modeling out the data we're collecting to be able to do a noise layer for the entire city (weekend vs. weekday and the time of day as a slider). We're hoping to have a demo up and running in a few weeks.
Re: Noise Visualization in the Tenderloin by Movity (YC W10)
#23Very cool project. It seems like getting every other intersection might be overkill? I'd be more interested in something sparser that covers more of the city.
Re: Noise Visualization in the Tenderloin by Movity (YC W10)
#24Cool. I did a traffic visualization from my apartment on Haight Street on New Years Eve and the first week of January this year. I just had a webcam with some software to detect movement in the middle of the intersection.
http://tlrobinson.net/projects/haightcam/traffic.png
(My R skills aren't great, sorry it's not pretty. The camera also got blocked for awhile around day 5 so it's not exactly scientific)
That first cycle starts mid day on New Years Eve. You can see a big drop in traffic leading up to midnight, then a big increase soon after. Not surprising, but it's always a little gratifying to confirm a hypothesis.
Re: Noise Visualization in the Tenderloin by Movity (YC W10)
#25Cool. I did a traffic visualization from my apartment on Haight Street on New Years Eve and the first week of January this year. I just had a webcam with some software to detect movement in the middle of the intersection. http://tlrobinson.net/projects/haightcam/traffic.png (My R skills aren't great, sorry it's not pretty. The camera also got blocked for awhile around day 5 so it's not exactly scientific) That first…
Neat! Do you have the data posted anywhere? I'm not sure my code produces much of an improvement on yours, but you can get some nice results with ggplot2:
library(ggplot2) x <- Sys.time() + 60 * (1:2400) y <- rpois(2400, 50 * (sin(seq(-4 * pi, 4 * pi, len=2400)) + 1.1)) qplot(as.POSIXct(x), y, geom=c("point", "smooth"), xlab="time", ylab="count")
Re: Noise Visualization in the Tenderloin by Movity (YC W10)
#26This is really cool! Having lived in the Tenderloin, I can testify to the impact of its noise on my quality of life. How is the project being funded? What does it take to install the data capturing equipment? How do the interactions with the city or property owners go?
I can only imagine if you tried this in Boston ;)
Shouldn't be a problem. The Big Dig did extensive noise monitoring for almost 10 years and maybe had a couple of monitors messed with.
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#27We built out a quick visualization of the noise data we've been collecting in the city. Again, the link is here: http://tendernoise.movity.com . Our goal for this noise project is to show the affect of noise (from muni, cable cars, bars, people) on the quality of life. We're going to collect and scale the data to other neighborhoods shortly. It's v.1, so let us know what you think.
What do the lengths of the coloured bars in the bottom panel represent?
Edit: Oh and I forgot to say this is awesome. How did you make this?
Re: Noise Visualization in the Tenderloin by Movity (YC W10)
#28We built out a quick visualization of the noise data we've been collecting in the city. Again, the link is here: http://tendernoise.movity.com . Our goal for this noise project is to show the affect of noise (from muni, cable cars, bars, people) on the quality of life. We're going to collect and scale the data to other neighborhoods shortly. It's v.1, so let us know what you think.
What do the lengths of the coloured bars in the bottom panel represent? Edit: Oh and I forgot to say this is awesome. How did you make this?
The range between the highest and lowest db reading at that given moment. The measurements were taking by us, analyzed by Arup (Arup.com), and visualized by Sha Hwang. He literally built it in 2 days and one of the few folks who specialize in data visualization.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do the lengths of the coloured bars in the bottom panel represent? Edit: Oh and I forgot to say this is awesome. How did you make this?
The range between the highest and lowest db reading at that given moment. The measurements were taking by us, analyzed by Arup (Arup.com), and visualized by Sha Hwang. He literally built it in 2 days and one of the few folks who specialize in data visualization.
Very cool. Are you considering releasing the data? It would be interesting to see the same data explored and visualised in other ways.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can only imagine if you tried this in Boston ;)
Shouldn't be a problem. The Big Dig did extensive noise monitoring for almost 10 years and maybe had a couple of monitors messed with.
I think he meant this: