Where are the roaches in NYC - the Great Urban Hack(roachmap.com)

26 pointsby agconwayvor 16 Jahren11 comments

Where are the roaches in NYC - the Great Urban Hack

http://roachmap.com/

7 comments

I wonder how much this is a measure of the diligence of various inspectors versus a measure of roaches being present. Something like this could be highly influenced by a sampling bias...

lkozmavor 16 Jahren

Nice idea but looks pretty random .. perhaps too little data ?

jclvor 16 Jahren

I thought the same thing... It needs a finer scale, and maybe some adjustment for density of restaurants, since that probably influences the frequency of health inspector calls.

It looks like there's a nice gradient along Long Island, though. :)

mshronvor 16 Jahren

The copy doesn't make it clear enough, but we're actually doing our best to adjust for small samples with a little empirical Bayesian magic. As the number of samples (inspections) goes down, the result is closer to the mean for the whole city.

qjzvor 16 Jahren

Doesn't this really track where the city health inspectors have been?

dminorvor 16 Jahren

Yeah, would be interesting to see a map colored with overall health inspector visits and see if there's a correspondence.

its_rainingvor 16 Jahren

There's a cooler interface for tracking bedbugs in NYC at http://samizdat.cc/bdbgs/

MiguelHudnandezvor 16 Jahren

I'd love to see this animated over a few months.

Splinesvor 16 Jahren

Yeah, I tried clicking on the archives, hoping I could put something together myself, and the buttons don't work (I'm using Chrome). :(

nowarninglabelvor 16 Jahren

So the answer is, everywhere. =)

VladRussianvor 16 Jahren

i clicked expecting something like roach marking and tracking hack. Reading the comments it looks though that even marking and tracking of health inspectors would already be a start.