Visualizations of New York City
<p>New York City’s <a href="https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">open data platform</a> is an incredible source of information. All public data collected and generated by the city is <a href="https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/open-data-law/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">mandated by law</a> to be made available through the portal, as well as being free for use by the public.</p>
<p>Datasets range from transport, housing, and motor vehicle incidents, to a Central Park squirrel census, and even park ranger reports of aggressive turtle encounters.</p>
<p>Geography, infrastructure, and sociology datasets like these represent real-world processes and events. Even if you have no connection to or little interest in NYC or urban areas in general, they give you a chance to work with data that looks a lot more like what you’ll encounter in a professional role than the likes of MNIST or Titanic survivors. Better still, they’re almost as easy to access.</p>
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