Friend Steve Guerin tips us to "Cabspotting," a
fascinating site created by San Francisco's
Exploratorium. It's about georgraphy, traffic flow,
and complexity. Give a look to "Cabspotting" at
http://www.cabspotting.org

About Cabspotting

Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they
travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by
each cab create a living and always-changing map of
city life. This map hints at economic, social, and
cultural trends that are otherwise invisible. The
Exploratorium has invited artists and researchers to
use this information to reveal these "Invisible
Dynamics."

The core of this project is the Cab Tracker. The
Tracker averages the last four hours of cab routes
into a ghostly image, and then draws the routes of ten
in-progress cab rides over it.

The Time Lapse area of the project reveals
time-varying patterns such as rush hour, traffic jams,
holidays and unusual events. New projects are produced
by the Exploratorium's visiting artists and also
created by the larger Cabspotting community.

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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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