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YIMBY used the city's Open Data portal to map the last five years of 311 complaints about illegal conversions, and the numbers illustrate what longtime New Yorkers already know: the majority of illegal apartments occupy homes in densely populated, working...

Phoenix WaterSim was developed by Arizona State University researchers to help the Phoenix metropolitan government estimate supply and demand in order to effectively manage its limited resources. WaterSim emphasizes the role of visualization in helping to...

The Housing Insights tool assembles essential information on all subsidized affordable housing in DC and connects it to relevant outside data such as public transit, property tax assessments and neighborhood characteristics to make it easy to consider all...

Mapping Inequality updates the study of New Deal America, the federal government, housing, and inequality for the twenty-first century. It offers unprecedented online access to the national collection of "security maps" and area descriptions produced...

The Washington Post published a large, interactive feature on the state of the nation's bridges, mapping the locations of the "structurally deficient" and "functionally obsolete" bridges around the United States. The interactive map zooms to the county...

A majority of public school students nationwide are from low-income families, according to analysis by the Southern Education Foundation. But mapping this disadvantage shows that it's unevenly spread across the country: poverty is concentrated in specific...

This series of interactive maps and visualizations break down state data on unemployment rates, total (nonfarm) payroll employment, and government employment.

The CDC bases its "Flu View" reports and predictions on physician records that report "influenza-like illnesses" among patients.

This interactive map visualizes bank closures by state. Several factors seem to be at work in the national decline in bank branch locations since their high-water mark in 2009. The Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and subsequent Great Recession impacted the...

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communications network that will replace over 7,500 pay phones across the five boroughs with new structures called Links. Each Link provides superfast, free public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging and a tablet for access...