Making sense of too much data

A visual and interactive experiment on the Parisian underground network 3 Creative Ways To Visualize Urban Public Transportation As cities gradually realize that opening up their data isn’t dangerous, we’re starting to see creative applications for the information that not too long ago was siloed off by government agencies. The Urban Data Challenge (where I was a judge), asked entrants to use open transportation data sets from three cities--San Francisco, Zurich, and Geneva--to create beautiful and insightful visualizations. These were the three winners of the competition, put on by Swissnex, the Grey Area Foundation for the Arts, LIFT, and others. Dots on the bus This project, which won the grand prize ($5,000 from Fusepool to develop an app), was the most entertaining entry of the bunch. There are a lot of data sets behind this visualization, including bus timing, the number of people who get on and off at each stop as determined by on-board lasers, and the location of each stop and route. Transit Quality and Equity Frustration Index See all the other winners and honorable mentions on the Urban Data Challenge site.