Transportation for America has published a table: Dangerous By Design: Most Dangerous Large Metro Areas for Pedestrians
Interestingly of the 52 largest US metros, the Twin Cities was the safest for Pedestrians, with only 0.54 Deaths per 100,000 residents, despite 2.4% walking to work. Orlando, Tampa, Miami, and Jacksonville topped the list as most dangerous.
Probably not coincidentally, Minneapolis-St.Paul-Bloomington ranks 6th in the US on funds spent on federal bike/ped $ per person (though I suspect it is skewed toward bikes compared to their number), at $2.61.
Day: 2011-03-28
A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Wikipedia
A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Gareth Lloyd on Vimeo.
Many wikipedia articles have coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Me (@godawful) and Tom Martin (@heychinaski) cross referenced the two to create a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia’s view of world history. Watch as empires fall, wars break out and continents are discovered.
This won “Best Visualization” at Matt Patterson’s History Hackday in January, 2011. To make it, we parsed an xml dump of all wikipedia articles (30Gb) and pulled out 424,000 articles with coordinates and 35,000 references to events. Cross referencing these produced 15,500 events with locations. Then we mapped them over time.
More information and datasets: ragtag.info/2011/feb/2/history-world-100-seconds/
David Levinson, Transportist 