posts tagged 'EveryBlock'

aggregated assault

More props to the EveryBlock team. While checking out my old neighborhood in Chicago, I noticed that they’ve changed the way they symbolize happenings. The following three images were captured as I drilled down on some happenings in Lincoln Square (restaurant reviews, aggravated assaults, etc.).

Notice how the news items are aggregated into proportional [...]

roll your own

If you haven’t checked out EveryBlock (a news feed for your block), check it out. Created by a team of four, including Adrian Holovaty of chicagocrime.org fame, and released just weeks ago, EveryBlock is perhaps most noteworthy for the designers’ choice to roll their own maps. Paul Smith has a post on just [...]