Michael Szell / is on Nostr

Human-centric urban #DataScience 🚶🚲 sustainable #mobility #networks 🕸️ #DataViz 🌌 in #Copenhagen

Created: https://datasci.social • https://GrowBike.Net • @nerdsitu • https://whatthestreet.com • https://pardus.at

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2024-09-14 08:53:16

I signed this #taxtherich EU citizen's initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home
For taxing great wealth to finance the ecological and social transition.
It needs more signatures to be taken up in the EU parliament, especially in the blue countries below:
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2024-02-22 08:10:47

I just created this plot, inspired by the great new paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
cc @npub1g45…0ka3 #JustStreets
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2024-02-08 12:40:19

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@npub1l0s…pgrv I love how google maps shows it all in green until you really zoom in. 😆 🦅
(See also my talk on urban spaces where I start with this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGW2TsV-LDA )
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2024-01-01 12:28:35

Don't throw away calendars - reuse them! There are just 14 possible years. This year, re-use 1996. Keep 2023 for 2034: https://whencanireusethiscalendar.com/

2023-12-06 09:21:53

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@npub14k2…ed68 My mostly uninformed guess is that the concrete numbers might be quite meaningless (or test something not so relevant), or show large variations, and the real test is how seriously countries are taking the PISA test - maybe the more serious the more of a sign for metric chasing which probably comes with statistical illiteracy and issues like the mcnamara fallacy or Goodhart's law. #meta
But maybe I am wrong and the PISA test numbers are indeed useful themselves.

2023-10-21 10:43:54

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And it's not just the quiet side streets. The problem is *especially* with all those big streets with protected bike lanes. Those protected bike lanes don't do much for liveability - to the contrary, they cement the status quo of #motonormativity : "You got your tiny dedicated space, the rest is for cars."
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2023-10-21 10:21:00

Finally, somebody implemented AI-street reimagining as a public tool: https://dutchcyclinglifestyle.com/
Explore how also in *your* city almost every street is an urban planning failure! Here #copenhagen. Some of the needed changes are so tiny, yet they are *somehow* impossible:
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2023-10-07 11:29:51

Please support your local server! You still have 3 months left to get your name on our list of 2023 supporters who helped kickstart datasci.social: https://community.datasci.social/docs/support/
We will *always* be ad-free. We had virtually no downtimes in a year. But we are not sustainable yet - I am still financing most expenses from my private funds. Every single $ helps. Please consider helping us out to pay our server bills. Thank you! ❤️

2023-08-09 08:41:35

Which route do you take?
A - Fastest (14 min), Shortest (4.0 km), 30% green, 50% next to cars
B - Slowest (16 min), Longest (4.8 km), 5% green, 95% next to cars
Google Maps: Take B!
You can only explain this with google operating on "car-brain": Route B is taken by cars, has broad streets, so it must be best. Route A cannot be taken by car, so it must be bad.
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2023-07-15 07:55:55

Twitter feels like US academia: competitive, loud, fast, the biggest bullies rise to the top, worship-cult of the dude leader, publish or perish, maximize engagement
Mastodon feels like Scandinavian academia: slow, nobody is special, mostly respectful, publish whatever, ignore and be ignored, only white people but *definitely* not racist, sometimes unprofessional feuds surface but usually calm, don't engage after 3pm and on weekends
Sounds more like #stereotypes or real?

2023-07-15 07:55:55

2023-05-24 09:55:34

Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes
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2023-05-19 18:12:27

This week https://datasci.social has turned 6 months old 🥳
We are 133 people now (68 active), with increased growth in the past few weeks. Our server hosts a community for #DataScience, broadly defined. See below our place in the universe of servers.
Our operation is financed via donations, we are grateful for support: https://community.datasci.social/docs/support/
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2023-04-23 06:26:58

Melbourne studied how protected bike lanes change people's willingness to bike. https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/transportstrategy/cycling
Unsurprisingly, unprotected intersections fare worst. Yet, this is the recommended intersection design of the Danish road authority because of "safety".
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