OSCUR brings together data science (visualization, data management, analytics, modeling, HCI), policy, and engineering (sustainable & resilient urban infrastructure, network science) to tackle important scientific questions and help urban data analytics efforts around the world. We will discuss the platform and demo two example applications.
UTK: Using the Urban Toolkit (UTK) we will provide and interactive tutorial demonstration that shows how eight different datasets from NYC Open Data portal (including crime and noise reports; restaurants, parks, and subway locations; sky exposure; school quality reports and taxi pickups) can be used to create an integrated map-based visualization to help us to better understand the uniqueness of different neighborhoods. We will provide preprocessed datasets and shapefiles, and walk participants through the creation of "knots" that attach data from each of the loaded datasets to a neighborhood in the interactive map. (
https://urbantk.org/utk/)
Curio: Using Curio we will demonstrate how to conduct a micro-scale environmental analysis, using Milan as a test case. We will first show how weather data are loaded into Curio and create a spatial join to link the data to the neighborhoods of Milan. We will then show how to calculate the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), and create linked visualizations to highlight neighborhoods with high UTCI and a large population of older adults. This example will be used to show how the Curio framework supports collaborative urban visual analytics more generally. (
https://urbantk.org/curio/)
Other OSCUR related projects include:
· Project Sidewalk (
https://makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu/project/sidewalk/)
Our NYC research has been featured in NY Times:
· Mapping the Shadows of New York City: Every Building, Every Block (
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/upshot/Mapping-the-Shadows-of-New-York-City.html)
· The Coronavirus Quieted City Noise. Listen to What’s Left. (
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/22/upshot/coronavirus-quiet-city-noise.html)
