Urban Data & Human Activity & Border Vacuums

An urban analysis to explore the data & human perceptions in the NYC Parks - potential "Border Vacuums" as noted by Jane Jacobs

What people see, say, and do, in NYC parks...

Urban Data | Machine Learning

Complete Work

A fallacy of human sense & perception & fact?

1. Negative correlation between Sense of Safety & Crime Rate?
2. A secret relationship between
text in park's reviews & vision in park's images?

Geographic mapping...

Tuning YOLOv8 model to train custom dataset of 1401x street views for segmenting every possible, small catogories street items

Guess what each color stands for...

Scraping from Google Map review for 34 parks, & mapping out what they are talking about - Text Analysis

Topics modelling (word vectoring) is more informative for investigating what people are talking about for each park

NEXT STEP

An Interactive Urban Planning Platform to empower citizens to participate in our public spaces planning & management

01 Concept Ideation

Brainstorm ideation to scale up our research project

Our research results in obscure, surprising, and seemingly contradictory relationships in urban analytics. I want to further this study to involve citizens; one for empowering citizens to our city, our life space; two for scale up the crowd sourcing for urban data, especially some subjective studies related to human senses and perceptions.

02 Sketches

Translate early concepts to paper

Sticking to two concepts on this platform inspired by this study, I started sketching to visualize my ideas in a flow. These sketches served as a foundation for my later wireframes and development.

03 Wireframing

Final ideas streamlined into a user flow

With a simplied and clear directions, I tried to constructed the concepts and ideas into a user flow on the mobile interface.

04 Hi-Fi Prototyping

Final ideas streamlined into a user flow

With a simplied and clear directions, I tried to constructed the concepts and ideas into a user flow on the mobile interface.

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