May 20, 2014

New York transit visualisation

We’ve seen animated pictures of mass transit routes before, but mta.me has the wonderful touch of lines that behave like plucked guitar strings when they cross. Not all that useful, but pretty and soothing. And a reminder that New York has a whole lot of trains, just like we don’t. By Alexander Chen

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(via @_inundata)

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »