Smart Wall Study

by Tyler G.

Map:

https://tgiroux605.carto.com/viz/d9b9056e-7929-11e6-adb3-0e3ff518bd15/embed_map (Links to an external site.)

Narrative:

The topic I presented last week in class was in internal, interactive smart facade or curtain wall, which could also be used for windows. In order to link this with information available on the Chicago Data Portal, I used data which could help with implementing the product into areas that are available or need this product to improve it's energy use within the city of Chicago. The base layer of the map outlines the community and neighborhood areas in the city. This serves as a reference for the data to see larger areas in need and find opportunities to plan larger projects to expand the use of the product. The data sets used on the map highlight vacant and abandoned buildings in the city, as well as energy star ratings of buildings under inspection of Chicago's Building Energy Use Benchmark Ordinance. The vacant and abandoned buildings are represented through the shaded of blue regions, light to dark representing the density of the amount of them. This poses the opportunity for finding buildings that can be acquired and updated with the use of the interactive smart window. Also, in areas where there are multiple vacant or abandoned buildings, a larger project based on a more technological and efficient design could be proposed for the area. Therefore, the technology could be used in a larger quantity and dispersed more within the city. The data from the Chicago Building Energy Use Benchmark Ordinance collects the whole energy use data from buildings over 50,000 square feet in the city that account for about 20% of all Chicago's buildings energy use. This data is represented through the shads of red dots. They are indicating the energy star scores for those buildings. Any building that is below or doesn't meet the required standard can be targeted as one in which the smart facade technology can be used to improve that

Relationships of Gun Vioence

by Fino F.

According to the article from The Washington Post of last month, Chicago has had more homicides this year than New York and Los Angeles combined. Therefore, it inspired me to create a visualized map for exploring the safety issue of Chicago society. The black background, the gradually varied orange dots and animated cumulative blue dots combined the map to represent the connection within Chicago communities, city crime cases and the gun violations.

In the article, it mentioned the gun violence, or we say weapon violation, has been the primary issue of the whole Chicago crime cases. By using of the dark mapping background for representing the crime mood, different white polygons for expressing the community blocks, the dots of gradient red for the total case number of Chicago crime are scattered over the map. The animated cumulative blue dots gradually overlapping and blinking over the orange dots, eventually, it mostly occupies the area where the orange dots forms. Working through the map creating process, it really helps me better understand the relationship within the weapon violations, crime and social communities. And I hope, we should all be warned by these dangerous issues and using data mapping as an important method to figure out the real reason about the increasing of Chicago crime, which hasn’t been figured out yet.

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Lauren E.

Crimes and Socio-Economics

Alex Dou

For the map, I choose four datasets from the City of Chicago Data Portal, including Boundaries of community areas, Census Data – Selected socioeconomic indicators in Chicago, Crimes - 2001 to present, and Selected public health indicators by Chicago community area. When I'm playing with these different datasets, I find profound and interesting relationship between crimes and socioeconomic indicators in Chicago area. 

I use the data of percent age 25+ without high school diploma from Census Data - Selected socioeconomic indicators to reflect the education level. As one of the ways to measure economic power, per capita income of Chicago's different community areas (from Selected public health indicators) is basically in proportion to the below poverty level of those community areas. According to the data of Crime - 2001 to present, theft, robbery and assault are the most frequent types of crime in Chicago. Through categorizing the crimes on map, it is obvious to see that the crimes increase at the community areas with relatively higher per capita income. The crimes of theft and robbery also increase at the community areas with relatively higher percent without high school diploma and higher poverty level.

Family Tracker, Crime and the CTA

Ashley C.

To go along with my family tracker, I came up with a map that shows where most crimes have occurred, where the police stations in the city are located, and where the CTA stops are. My idea was to create a map that would help people get to their destinations safely. First, I chose to show where most crimes occur so that users could know which areas were safer than others. This can be seen from the shades of blue. Dark blue depicts the most number of crimes and tan would be the least amount of crimes. Second, I planned to show where the CTA stops were located, since a majority of people living in Chicago use public transit. This can be seen in the green dots. The larger the dot, the greater the number of stops, and the smaller the dot, the lower the amount of stops. With these two pieces of information combined together, users would know which locations were safest to get to their destination. Lastly, I chose to include police stations for the users to understand where police patrolling was most intense. These can be seen by the white dots. This would be able to help users if there were very minimal CTA stops that were safe. Users could then feel safer knowing that police were very abundant around the stop they were using, even if it was not traditionally a safe neighborhood.   

https://acoope8.carto.com/viz/11485bd0-791e-11e6-ba15-0e8c56e2ffdb/public_map

Chicago Landmarks

by Robert C.

With this map that I have created you can see the concentration of landmarks in each neighborhood, as well as the major individual landmarks.  You can see that there are more landmarks in the city, and as you spread out to the suburbs, there are fewer major landmarks.  This ties into the technology I described in my presentation by having an app that can scan a QR code and give you more information on the landmark.  The app would also track the number of people who visit the landmark to provide that information to the city.

https://raclubb.carto.com/viz/20ce3af4-79cb-11e6-8b12-0e3a376473ab/embed_map (Links to an external site.)

Data Visualization

My main interest is to understand how people occupy the public parks, how much time they spend in them, how they sit, which activities are most popular, if they prefer to sit under the sun or under a shadow, how this behavior changes throughout the year with the different seasons and what are the main attractions that make people interested in one park or another, in order to create a parametric surface that adapts to the user’s needs.

This map reflects the different public parks of the city, the public art as a main attraction, both tourist and local, and finally a relation of the different farmer’s market that pop up around the city creating also an anchor for social and urban life.

As we can see, these three concepts are usually located near each other, and create a richer public space offering a variety of activities, amenities, etc.

https://abetancourt.carto.com/viz/7869694a-75f3-11e6-be8d-0e3ebc282e83/embed_map

Chicago Heat

by Lina A.

This data is calculating the total heat of the Chicago area, in relation to the energy bench-marking for each specific building type. the data shows how how each building type effect the total energy usage in relation to the square foot space.

https://linaalsharif.carto.com/me

National Preparedness Month

By Melissa B.

September is National Preparedness Month, and since I talked about natural disasters and emergency relief in class, I thought I’d relate my map to this topic. The Family and Support Services Delegate Agencies layer shows by animation, which services are available to Chicago residents by community area.  On the Grocery Stores tab, you can find which grocery store is nearest to you in order to stock up on food and water to be prepared in case of emergencies. By clicking on the icons, you can see each store’s name and address for getting there. When navigating over to the hospitals tab, different hospital types can be found per community area. Community areas are also identified, as dark areas being larger than the lighter colored divisions. Not necessarily, the largest areas have the most resources for getting prepared.