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Location, location, location (data)
Locatable: Data on Where to Live.
Joel Gurin • Open Data Now: The Secret to Hot Startups, Smart Investing, Savvy Marketing, and Fast Innovation (Business Books)
“The potential benefits of mining such data [from cell phones that track location via GPS] are various; examples include reducing traffic congestion and pollution, limiting the spread of disease, and better using public resources such as parks, buses, and ambulance services.
Eric Siegel • Predictive Analytics
Digital maps can behave in a dynamic fashion because they are powered by data. When we use a map, data is both informing and responding to our actions to help us contextualize digital space.
Koby Moreno • Designing with maps and data: visualizing vacancy in St. Louis
Over last ten years, the geometry of the cities did not change much, so it determines our movements as much as it did in the 1960s. But what did change is the presence and role of maps. Digital interactive maps are now built into tens of thousands of apps for mobile devices, and we use them daily. Looking and working with the geometry of the cities... See more