Urban Picture

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1912) via Bike Hype

Revise and Resubmit

How motivated I am with a 'revise/resubmit' decision after six months of submitting the paper.

credit: Kostas Siozios

Where do women have Maternity leave and Who pays for it

Where do women get Maternity leave and Who pays for it Cc @simonhedlin @lisawade #maternityleave pic.twitter.com/Jv5oRSU3Dr

— Urban Demographics (@UrbDemogrphics) September 19, 2015

Assorted links

1. Mapping LA's 20 Year Mobility Plan
   
   
2. Should Your Driverless Car Kill You to Save Two Other People?
   
   
3. 13 women who transformed the world of economics via MR
   
   
4. Color use in paintings, by year
   
   
5. Seagull Skytrails
   
   
6. Same BMI, different bodies (the problem with averages)
   
   
7. Ratio of Workers to Retirees Will Plummet Worldwide
   
   
8. Grid-based statistics in 3D using Three.js and D3.js.

Exploring 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips

Todd Schneider has posted a thorough analysis of 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips where he explores the city's neighbourhoods, night-life, airport traffic etc. You can replicated all that using publicly available data, R, PostgreSQL and PostGIS. GitHub repository here.

Programming Music with Punched Cards

I've just learned this 'instrument' is called a fairground organ. This is as hipster as you can get with coding.

ps. in case you're under 30, there is a high chance you don't know what a Punched Card is. You might like reading this.

Walking Tube map, or the most important map when you are in London

Map of the  last  week: Transport for London (TFL) has recently published new map that shows how long it takes to walk between stations on the London Tube (a.k.a. underground or subway).

Click here for the full size map.

Urban Picture

[image credit: snappedbycam]

Spatial + Temporal patterns of bike sharing in Moscow

Urbica (a design company based in Moscow) have done a great job in analyzing the spatial and temporal patterns of bike sharing in Moscow (ht Andrey Karmatsky). To our delight, their source code is available on GitHub.

I would highly recommend you to  procrastinate on  check their website. You can also read a nice summary of their results here.

ps. You might want to check a few related links at the bottom of this post.

Related Links:

• Visualizing usage patterns of the bike sharing scheme in Philadelphia
• The Shortest bike lane ever
• The size of bike-sharing systems Worldwide
• Bicycles access and school enrollment

Quote of the Day

"Each of us knows that some of our opinions are wrong, and none of us know which they are. For if we did, they would not be our opinions."

John Stuart Mill