If somebody went and made quetch an unionized sport , New Yorkers would no doubt be among the game ’s most supernaturally gifted grumbler . But what , exactly , would they sound off about ?
Driven by a desire to fancy NYC ’s grievances on a city - panoptic scale , media creative person Dietmar Offenhuber — an alumnus of MIT ’s thoroughly awesomeMedia science laboratory — combed through public record in search of 311 call ( i.e. non - emergency overhaul requests ) made for noise , graffiti , and litter between 2010 and 2012 . He then overlaid the solvent atop a block - by block , interactive map of the city ’s five borough , color - coding as he move accord to the nature of each complaint .
Here ’s the result . As Offenhuber points out , “ it seems that Manhattan complains more about noise , the Bronx more about graffiti , and Staten Island more about bedding material . ” Click to zoom in and pan out around :
Offenhuber scored this information viaNYC Open Data , a positively massive repository of public data , generated by a motley of the city ’s agencies & organizations and made available for public purpose . One ca n’t help oneself but enquire what other insight are hiding in those telephone number .
See more of Offenhuber ’s leading visualization workover on his web site .
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