How we move in cities

A short post about a few great visualizations of how we move in cities*:

Mark Byrnes writes about the iPhone app Human, that has already tracked 7.5 million miles traveled by their users using different transport modes in 30 different cities.

Giorgio Uboldi writes about a project where the DensityDesign Lab analyzed and visualized data collected of a car sharing service in Milan over seven days.

Nathan Yau also point out to two mobile apps that collect data about where people run and bike in major cities: RunKeeper  and Strava.

* There are many other projects dedicated to capture human mobility patterns in our cities using a wide variety of data sources and visualization techniques. It would be barely impossible to cover all of them. Here is a list with some of the projects I have crossed with: 

• Visualizing the Speed and Direction of Twitter Users
• Sensing the City: Mapping London’s Population Flows
• Metropolitain: Exploring the Paris Metro in 3D
• Your Rush-Hour Commute as an Animated Cartoon
• Isochronic Singapore: A Dynamic City Transportation Map
• What Public Transit Data Teaches Us About How People Use a City
• How fast are Boston's buses? Journey speeds visualised in near real time
• Identifying Communities in Traffic Flow
• NYC Taxi Trips Data from 2013
• Any other suggestion ... ?