Polluting the Poor in San Francisco
If you are on a low income in San Francisco then you are probably breathing polluted air. On average the poorest San Franciscans have a 30% ...
The Deadly Streets of San Francisco
Six times a day, every day of the week someone is injured by a car in San Francisco. A car injures someone approximately every four hours on...
Sounds of Life in the Bay
The San Francisco Bay Area Sound Map is an interactive map which allows you to listen to over 150 different sound recordings captured in loc...
Real-Time Bart Trains Map
If you are working from home in San Francisco and starting to miss your daily commute then you might want to play with the Track Live Bart T...
The California Primaries
Nationwide maps of the Super Tuesday primary results are great for visualizing how the main Democratic presidential hopefuls performed acros...
Uber and Lyft in San Francisco
In the Fall of 2016, on an average Friday, Uber and Lyft made more than 200,000 journeys. A new data visualization, Uber and Lyft in San Fra...
Mapping House Prices
In January Demographia International named Vancouver the 3rd least affordable housing market in the world, behind Hong Kong and Sydney. The ...
Mapping the Fictional San Francisco
In 'Around the World in Eighty Days' Jules Verne described San Francisco as a city of "verdant squares". You can discover ...
The Burrito Eater's Problem
On Monday Maps Mania featured Randy Olson's Optimal Road Trip of U.S. National Parks. Randy's map is an example of solving the Trave...
Streetcars of San Francisco
For some reason I've always imagined that there were a lot more streetcar lines in San Francisco. The good news is that there are actual...
Whose Being Evicted in San Francisco?
The Anti-Eviction Project has created a lot of interesting maps around the issue of housing in San Francisco. For their latest map the Anti-...
The Best Places to Live in the Bay Area
Teleport is an interesting real-estate search engine for the Bay Area. Tell Teleport where you work, how far you wish to commute and how muc...
Mapping Oakland Police Killings
Over the last few years Maps Mania has featured a few maps from San Francisco's Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. These include the Ellis A...
Escape from Alcatraz - The Map
The Washington Post has published an interesting account of the escape of three detainees from Alcatraz in June 1962. No one knows if the th...
Crap on a Map
Apparently people defecating on the streets is a thing in San Francisco. At least it is a big enough problem for Jennifer Wong to think it w...
Mapping the Bicycle Thief
Seismograph's map of Where Your Bicycle is Most Likely to Get Stolen in San Francisco shows you where in 2013 in San Francisco bikes wer...
The Bike Routes of San Francisco
Cyclodeo has arrived in San Francisco. Cyclodeo is a really useful application that enables cyclists to preview a route on a Google Map and ...
Interlude: Delfina's Pizza, San Francisco
A blogpost! gasp! Lots has been happening offline in the past few months of desserts for breakfast silence: the biggest news being that I de...
TGIF: The Berkeley Hills in June
While in the UK, I had a chance to hike through the British countryside, and though the sheer green-ness of it all was stunning (and charmin...
Dessert Day, part 1: San Francisco, CA
berry bread pudding at Sandbox Bakery I have a friend, Rob, who constantly amazes me with his sheer amount of enthusiasm for desserts. It...