A Day in the Life of the MBTA

A project from Ryan Habbyshaw, Brad Simpson, and Todd Vanderlin visualize the traffic of the Boston Transit Authority systems with beautiful results.

The subway data from August 12, 2009 was parsed in openFrameworks and Matlab using custom applications. Statistical analysis was performed in Matlab for subway loading (temporal and geographical including the entire MBTA, individual lines, and individual stations), rate of subway activity, and associated data. openFrameworks was used to generate the central visualizations for the project.

You can order posters and see larger versions of the graphics on their site.

via Vanderlin | A Day in the Life of the MBTA. via Infosthetics

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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