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| Data Walk: Bringing Demographics to the People is a project proposal that seeks to unfurl one of the most used data sets into the real world by mapping Census data directly onto the NYC landscape.
According to data from the 2000 Census, a particular block east of Allen Street is 50 percent more Asian than the block directly west of it. And a block north of Rivington Street has 40 percent more divorced couples than the block directly south. If you walk down these New York City streets, however, these numbers don't add up. What does it mean when spatial data is defined by arbitrary boundaries? How does the U.S. Census compare to its original people and places? Data Walk brings demographics to the people by mapping Census data directly onto the landscape. Inspired by Eve Mosher's HighWaterLine project, the boundaries of Census blocks and tracts will be drawn on the sidewalks with a continuous chalk line and paired with select statistics to make this information more accessible and bring awareness to its strengths and inaccuracies. This project can expand to include a website and map layer for mobile devices, in similar fashion to the air quality project. All in all, it's about making demographic data accessible and engaging, comparing maps with their original spaces, and bringing awareness to the strengths and weaknesses of data used by urban planners, real estate developers, and other influential city builders. |
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