let’s take a little charity 19th century
London is not an easy place to live much
of the population found themselves
living in abject poverty in overcrowded
slums with horrendous sanitation the
average life expectancy was less than 50
years the reason for this is because
there was regular epidemics during this
time there were four columns now common
knowledge at the time was that cholera
was a very rare disease they came to the
cemetery where a hundred years prior to
will give victims of the bubonic plague
there now many and John smelly disagree
John was convinced that cholera was
actually coming from contaminated
drinking water now no one really
believed on them this wasn’t a cocktail
of theater so we’ve created a map first
to map out the locations of all the
drinking was and then he mapped out the
locations of all the people that had
died did call now very quickly he
started to see a trend and this trend
became more neurotics he identified one
specific level where many of the victims
were died from cholera had been getting
to rock so he created the narrative
around us based on fact he created a
narrative resonated with city fish so
much so they decided to close down to
low and they actually contain now Jones
classic seven
is one of the best examples for
understanding and resolving social
problems using spatial analysis data
visualization and max now we’ve
continued to use the strategy and these
methods for storytelling and creating
narratives today this is that stain that
is same data recreated it actually just
a few days ago using modern technology
our abilities to tell stories are
increasing at an exponential rate due to
technological advances the ease at which
we could use this technology the
increased access to fabulous technology
and the power of this technology now
this map shows us the wealth of
information that we can derive from
place understanding place is powerful so
the x value that I’m Colorado which I am
there might be some images the topic of
it that you might you might think ok
this guy’s grew up in the mountains
every weekend maybe hanging out with
maybe not but if I were to tell you that
I was from my egg you might get a
different image in your mind perhaps one
that’s a little more elevated maybe a
little more stylish we assign meaning to
place whether we try to or not we are
understanding of a location changes the
way we perceive that place and max allow
us to be that much more accurate while
that’s true I do have a friend in truth
it looked like that other guy that
doesn’t mean Colorado so maps allow us
to get a much more realistic fact-based
understanding of place and as our that’s
the power of location back that’s the
power of telling a full story with all
the information to allow us to achieve a
full and complete understanding of the
complex realities an understanding of
place an understanding of what location
means in different areas of the world in
understanding these complex realities as
they exist across different geographies
so we can tell stories with max the
historical political social economic
personal ties of people have the places
are you together the center of stories
and we can create maps within this data
right and I know dad sometimes is not
the most exciting word that makes people
want to jump
excited but the good news is is that it
is everywhere we create that you all
treat that we’re taking data right now
when you use social media when you use
your phone when you buy something you’re
creating that and more and more data has
a location component which allows us to
easily letters that better understand
the world that we live so as individuals
we create data but cities and
organizations and companies also created
app and five years ago in New York City
we decided to open up that and by
opening up I mean allow citizens and
normal people to access that information
creating a common language between
government and people working with the
same information and so open data can
cover everything from education to crime
the security to environment climate and
so I’ll give you a simple example of how
we can turn that data into insight into
a narrative and little story and how we
can own that data to tell our own
stories so if we go to that website open
data in New York City website and you
download a simple that set this one
meeting of trees in New York City we can
stroll around would look at the read
maybe there’s one hundred two hundred
thousand rows
information there it’s very hard to
actually get something out of it it’s a
little overwhelming so step one must
open up a static increase access to this
data but step two is to create tools
allow us to everyone the ability to
learn from that to inform our
decision-making and to create our own
narratives to create our own change in
to support our nonprofits that are most
important to us so once we visualize
this data this is the same data in a
visual representation on a map very
quickly we can see the different species
of trees that exist in New York City the
sizes the distribution of trees across
New York City this is a very simple
example a more complex example would be
looking at the old data that showed all
the traffic accidents that occur in New
York City over time this allows
individuals and citizens a seat at the
table when talking about addressing
problems as they pertain in this case to
traffic accidents we can understand
where they’re happening where problem
areas are and we committed better inform
to propose solutions to those problems
and more generally we can contribute to
the ongoing discussions happening in
these spaces the full potential of data
is realized with the combination of
these open source mapping platforms to
give us insight into where to place
locations and they allow us to tell
stories and stories are something that
we have always hope right we’ve used
many different methods to tell stories
whether it be spoken word written
stories of conflicts successes of
failures we doing with drawings and
images and movies song and dance the
first stories were carved into the cave
walls and just with the simple image we
can gain insight of how people live what
their circumstances were like and now we
tell stories a more sophisticated way
where we are enabled to include
irrefutably true data in facts into our
narratives like this one that shows the
situation of people our stations across
the world and I think that everyone
strongly believed that every successful
social justice movement has had one key
component in common a strong narrative a
strong story because if you want to
change something you have to tell the
story actually out of the first before
you know what you’re going to change how
you’re going to change it whatever
ultimately want to write women did not
achieve the right to vote by holding
meetings with other women who also
wanted to achieve the right to vote in
some sense maybe they did they organized
and mobilized but the biggest challenge
was to create a narrative it resonated
with the same people who stood in their
way to go right who were your customers
they have a training narrative that
convinced them that they was in
everyone’s best interest that they
Laurie did they have something to
contribute that they deserve did they
have a right to sit at the table and
being politically represented apartheid
South Africa would not have achieved
livable changes that did without winning
black South Africans needed their white
counterparts to understand the strike to
understand their struggles to understand
them on a personal level so that they
could evoke some compassion some objects
reason so for the past year I have been
working in an amazing capacity that
allows me to engage with individuals in
organizations all over the world telling
stories using data using technology to
give voice to the voiceless cases to be
visible and the green issues to the
former that are very easily swept under
the rug
sometimes biography so I’d like to share
some the story clearly now and I’d like
to start with the anti-eviction mapping
project and I think they really embody
where we are as a society and how we are
collectively leveraging this technology
this is a group of volunteers they’re a
napkin collective that fully depend on
maps to tell their stories it tells
stories of displacement forced evictions
gentrification you see the people that
are being displaced don’t have a voice
they might be immigrants English might
not be their first language they might
not have a full understanding of their
rights as a tenant this makes them easy
vigorous but luckily we have a power of
data that’s of telling stories and to
bring me more into the mainstream you
can’t change something if you don’t know
it exists so
some of their work shows correlations
between in this case Airbnb innovations
we might have opinions about what that
correlation area not de but let’s put
the facts on a map let’s visualize it
and tell story and let the surface
master the environmental investigation
agency tells stories for a specific
purpose to raise awareness there’s lots
of different reasons why they tell
stories
maybe the mobilized people need to raise
awareness to obtain and these people are
raising awareness around illegal
poaching but they’re doing it in a way
that puts facts in location at the
center of that story which empowers
people to follow the routes of the
states from where the animals tells
where the hydrosoul and everyone in
between the customs agencies that look
the other way the person that took the
drive this brings accountability this
empowers an international community to
bring certain perpetrators to justice
it’s much more than just a nice nap look
at Jon Snow resolve the social problem
in London one hundred and fifty years
ago using that and today we’re faced
with new health epidemics the most
recent one that I had the pleasure
working on was inked up that we’re still
working on of course and trying to
understand these new epidemics as they
come up when new outbreaks happen we’re
not able to track visualize it analyze
that in real time telling that story as
it unfolds allowing us to mobilize
resources
people to certain areas before the table
meeting gets there I have to say is
definitely my favorite project because
it embodies everything that I love about
perhaps everything I love about
democratizing access to this technology
in kierra is one of the largest informal
settlements in the world and people
artists in Africa located in 2009 is a
community of 250,000 people did not
exist on the map it was a latest spot it
didn’t even look like a park it just
wasn’t there
250,000 people invisible larger place
and each individual has a story of
economic stories that are not meaningful
so thanks to OpenStreetMap which is an
international volunteer nonprofit now
the organization that allows people to
edit maps and put themselves in their
communities on the map
we now see that in this zone that wasn’t
even representative of people that were
visible there’s actually a lot going on
there’s a rich culture there’s
creativity there’s places of worship
there’s business ingenuity and now these
people are having a mapping themselves
they’re telling their own stories
through this and so when a problem does
arise they’re in a much better position
to address it and to get the support
here in New York City neighborhoods are
changing the city’s employment and
anytime that happens there’s winners and
there’s losers unfortunately we know too
that I’m talking about a roomful of New
Yorkers you know that but to what extent
is up for buster
right we know there’s things going on
but we don’t know exactly where to what
extent someone’s being negatively
affected what extent someone else’s is
gaining from this the citizen housing
and planning council takes publicly
available data over time and visualize
it as exactly how exchanges are
manifesting themselves
how are the demographic compositions in
who’s standing forced out who’s coming
in achieving a fuller understanding of
the story that is New York is in part
achieved through this technology do
these stories so I know that everybody
here has a story
everyone has an individual experience
everyone is tied in certain place
whether it be what you’re studying where
you’re from where your family’s from
where you want to be before you happen
so tell the stories you will all go out
and continue to make your mark on the
world and impact your communities impact
the road so do something creative way do
so the way that’s intact through do so
in a new way so think about what the
stories that you care about are think
about how you want to help be creative
II thought entire floor they you
London is not an easy place to live much
of the population found themselves
living in abject poverty in overcrowded
slums with horrendous sanitation the
average life expectancy was less than 50
years the reason for this is because
there was regular epidemics during this
time there were four columns now common
knowledge at the time was that cholera
was a very rare disease they came to the
cemetery where a hundred years prior to
will give victims of the bubonic plague
there now many and John smelly disagree
John was convinced that cholera was
actually coming from contaminated
drinking water now no one really
believed on them this wasn’t a cocktail
of theater so we’ve created a map first
to map out the locations of all the
drinking was and then he mapped out the
locations of all the people that had
died did call now very quickly he
started to see a trend and this trend
became more neurotics he identified one
specific level where many of the victims
were died from cholera had been getting
to rock so he created the narrative
around us based on fact he created a
narrative resonated with city fish so
much so they decided to close down to
low and they actually contain now Jones
classic seven
is one of the best examples for
understanding and resolving social
problems using spatial analysis data
visualization and max now we’ve
continued to use the strategy and these
methods for storytelling and creating
narratives today this is that stain that
is same data recreated it actually just
a few days ago using modern technology
our abilities to tell stories are
increasing at an exponential rate due to
technological advances the ease at which
we could use this technology the
increased access to fabulous technology
and the power of this technology now
this map shows us the wealth of
information that we can derive from
place understanding place is powerful so
the x value that I’m Colorado which I am
there might be some images the topic of
it that you might you might think ok
this guy’s grew up in the mountains
every weekend maybe hanging out with
maybe not but if I were to tell you that
I was from my egg you might get a
different image in your mind perhaps one
that’s a little more elevated maybe a
little more stylish we assign meaning to
place whether we try to or not we are
understanding of a location changes the
way we perceive that place and max allow
us to be that much more accurate while
that’s true I do have a friend in truth
it looked like that other guy that
doesn’t mean Colorado so maps allow us
to get a much more realistic fact-based
understanding of place and as our that’s
the power of location back that’s the
power of telling a full story with all
the information to allow us to achieve a
full and complete understanding of the
complex realities an understanding of
place an understanding of what location
means in different areas of the world in
understanding these complex realities as
they exist across different geographies
so we can tell stories with max the
historical political social economic
personal ties of people have the places
are you together the center of stories
and we can create maps within this data
right and I know dad sometimes is not
the most exciting word that makes people
want to jump
excited but the good news is is that it
is everywhere we create that you all
treat that we’re taking data right now
when you use social media when you use
your phone when you buy something you’re
creating that and more and more data has
a location component which allows us to
easily letters that better understand
the world that we live so as individuals
we create data but cities and
organizations and companies also created
app and five years ago in New York City
we decided to open up that and by
opening up I mean allow citizens and
normal people to access that information
creating a common language between
government and people working with the
same information and so open data can
cover everything from education to crime
the security to environment climate and
so I’ll give you a simple example of how
we can turn that data into insight into
a narrative and little story and how we
can own that data to tell our own
stories so if we go to that website open
data in New York City website and you
download a simple that set this one
meeting of trees in New York City we can
stroll around would look at the read
maybe there’s one hundred two hundred
thousand rows
information there it’s very hard to
actually get something out of it it’s a
little overwhelming so step one must
open up a static increase access to this
data but step two is to create tools
allow us to everyone the ability to
learn from that to inform our
decision-making and to create our own
narratives to create our own change in
to support our nonprofits that are most
important to us so once we visualize
this data this is the same data in a
visual representation on a map very
quickly we can see the different species
of trees that exist in New York City the
sizes the distribution of trees across
New York City this is a very simple
example a more complex example would be
looking at the old data that showed all
the traffic accidents that occur in New
York City over time this allows
individuals and citizens a seat at the
table when talking about addressing
problems as they pertain in this case to
traffic accidents we can understand
where they’re happening where problem
areas are and we committed better inform
to propose solutions to those problems
and more generally we can contribute to
the ongoing discussions happening in
these spaces the full potential of data
is realized with the combination of
these open source mapping platforms to
give us insight into where to place
locations and they allow us to tell
stories and stories are something that
we have always hope right we’ve used
many different methods to tell stories
whether it be spoken word written
stories of conflicts successes of
failures we doing with drawings and
images and movies song and dance the
first stories were carved into the cave
walls and just with the simple image we
can gain insight of how people live what
their circumstances were like and now we
tell stories a more sophisticated way
where we are enabled to include
irrefutably true data in facts into our
narratives like this one that shows the
situation of people our stations across
the world and I think that everyone
strongly believed that every successful
social justice movement has had one key
component in common a strong narrative a
strong story because if you want to
change something you have to tell the
story actually out of the first before
you know what you’re going to change how
you’re going to change it whatever
ultimately want to write women did not
achieve the right to vote by holding
meetings with other women who also
wanted to achieve the right to vote in
some sense maybe they did they organized
and mobilized but the biggest challenge
was to create a narrative it resonated
with the same people who stood in their
way to go right who were your customers
they have a training narrative that
convinced them that they was in
everyone’s best interest that they
Laurie did they have something to
contribute that they deserve did they
have a right to sit at the table and
being politically represented apartheid
South Africa would not have achieved
livable changes that did without winning
black South Africans needed their white
counterparts to understand the strike to
understand their struggles to understand
them on a personal level so that they
could evoke some compassion some objects
reason so for the past year I have been
working in an amazing capacity that
allows me to engage with individuals in
organizations all over the world telling
stories using data using technology to
give voice to the voiceless cases to be
visible and the green issues to the
former that are very easily swept under
the rug
sometimes biography so I’d like to share
some the story clearly now and I’d like
to start with the anti-eviction mapping
project and I think they really embody
where we are as a society and how we are
collectively leveraging this technology
this is a group of volunteers they’re a
napkin collective that fully depend on
maps to tell their stories it tells
stories of displacement forced evictions
gentrification you see the people that
are being displaced don’t have a voice
they might be immigrants English might
not be their first language they might
not have a full understanding of their
rights as a tenant this makes them easy
vigorous but luckily we have a power of
data that’s of telling stories and to
bring me more into the mainstream you
can’t change something if you don’t know
it exists so
some of their work shows correlations
between in this case Airbnb innovations
we might have opinions about what that
correlation area not de but let’s put
the facts on a map let’s visualize it
and tell story and let the surface
master the environmental investigation
agency tells stories for a specific
purpose to raise awareness there’s lots
of different reasons why they tell
stories
maybe the mobilized people need to raise
awareness to obtain and these people are
raising awareness around illegal
poaching but they’re doing it in a way
that puts facts in location at the
center of that story which empowers
people to follow the routes of the
states from where the animals tells
where the hydrosoul and everyone in
between the customs agencies that look
the other way the person that took the
drive this brings accountability this
empowers an international community to
bring certain perpetrators to justice
it’s much more than just a nice nap look
at Jon Snow resolve the social problem
in London one hundred and fifty years
ago using that and today we’re faced
with new health epidemics the most
recent one that I had the pleasure
working on was inked up that we’re still
working on of course and trying to
understand these new epidemics as they
come up when new outbreaks happen we’re
not able to track visualize it analyze
that in real time telling that story as
it unfolds allowing us to mobilize
resources
people to certain areas before the table
meeting gets there I have to say is
definitely my favorite project because
it embodies everything that I love about
perhaps everything I love about
democratizing access to this technology
in kierra is one of the largest informal
settlements in the world and people
artists in Africa located in 2009 is a
community of 250,000 people did not
exist on the map it was a latest spot it
didn’t even look like a park it just
wasn’t there
250,000 people invisible larger place
and each individual has a story of
economic stories that are not meaningful
so thanks to OpenStreetMap which is an
international volunteer nonprofit now
the organization that allows people to
edit maps and put themselves in their
communities on the map
we now see that in this zone that wasn’t
even representative of people that were
visible there’s actually a lot going on
there’s a rich culture there’s
creativity there’s places of worship
there’s business ingenuity and now these
people are having a mapping themselves
they’re telling their own stories
through this and so when a problem does
arise they’re in a much better position
to address it and to get the support
here in New York City neighborhoods are
changing the city’s employment and
anytime that happens there’s winners and
there’s losers unfortunately we know too
that I’m talking about a roomful of New
Yorkers you know that but to what extent
is up for buster
right we know there’s things going on
but we don’t know exactly where to what
extent someone’s being negatively
affected what extent someone else’s is
gaining from this the citizen housing
and planning council takes publicly
available data over time and visualize
it as exactly how exchanges are
manifesting themselves
how are the demographic compositions in
who’s standing forced out who’s coming
in achieving a fuller understanding of
the story that is New York is in part
achieved through this technology do
these stories so I know that everybody
here has a story
everyone has an individual experience
everyone is tied in certain place
whether it be what you’re studying where
you’re from where your family’s from
where you want to be before you happen
so tell the stories you will all go out
and continue to make your mark on the
world and impact your communities impact
the road so do something creative way do
so the way that’s intact through do so
in a new way so think about what the
stories that you care about are think
about how you want to help be creative
II thought entire floor they you
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