Renzo Picasso (1880-1975) was an Italian engineer, architect and designer. Originally from Genoa, he visited the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century and was deeply impressed by American urbanism and technical innovation. Inspired by these “discoveries,” he produced a large number of visionary drawings and plans depicting the most striking aspects of what he saw, such as skyscrapers, elevators, public transports, and urban plans. Read the article Gli straordinari progetti di Renzo Picasso per Genova published in the magazine “Viaggio in Liguria”, issue 02/2010, for more information.
Just over a year ago I wrote about how far ViziCities has come from its roots as a hobby project back in early 2013, all the way to becoming a fully fledged company at the end of 2014. It’s been an exciting time for ViziCities since then. In the past year alone I’ve had the pleasure to work with large companies spanning a variety of industries, using ViziCities to improve the way they interact with and understand their data. What this has made absolutely clear is that ViziCities is the perfect tool for companies and city authorities to quickly and intuitively understand their geospatial data and make relevant decisions far quicker than they were able to previously.
A framework for 3D geospatial visualisation in the browser
From there you will have access to the VIZI namespace which you can use to interact with and set up ViziCities. The first argument is the ID of the HTML element that you want to use as a container for the ViziCities visualisation.
Map-based information is one of our biggest and richest assets at Uber. The billions of GPS points handled by our platform every day in real-time pose atypical challenges for real-time mapping visualizations and in-browser, data-dense visualizations. […]
Our tech stack for these applications consists on a few libraries that we developed and open sourced.react-map-gl provides a React-friendly layer on top of MapboxGL, a library from Mapbox that we use extensively at Uber. deck.gl provides an interface for creating WebGL-powered layers that can be put on top of a map or used standalone for creating abstract data visualizations. […]
We recently created a data visualization that explores how uberPOOL can have an impact in making cities’ transportation much more efficient. Behind Travis Kalanick in his TED Talk, you’ll see the data visualization we crafted to show traffic per street segment with and without uberPOOL, demonstrating POOL’s ability to make cities smarter by reducing traffic.
The interesting conclusion is that after about five minutes, the longer you wait, the longer you will have to wait. If you waited for 15 min, the medianadditional waiting time is another 8 minutes. But 8 minutes later if the train still hasn’t come, the median additional waiting time is now another 12 minutes.
So when should you give up waiting? One way to think about it is how much time you think it’s worth waiting. The time you already waited is “sunk cost” so it doesn’t really matter. What matters is how much additional time you are willing to wait. Let’s assume you want to optimize for a wait time that’s less than 30 min in 90% of the cases. Then the max time you should wait is about 11 minutes until giving up (this is at the point where the yellow line cuts the 30 min mark).
In an attempt to get the zip backup of my blog and rule out any infrastructure issues at my end, I have spun up a cloud based server to download the file. IT STILL SAYS INTERUPTED DOWNLOAD!. at some random point part way through the file transfer. Not a good look for you guys this last month at Tumblr.
The Huanghe Qinghai Delingha Solar Project is an 810-megawatt concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in northern China. The facility, which is still under construction, will contain six solar concentrating towers and is expected to supply electricity to more than one million people in the surrounding area. In a CSP plant, thousands of heliostat mirrors are arrayed in concentric circles and reflect sunlight onto a central “power tower,” where water is heated to 1,000°F, which generates steam, spins turbines, and produces electricity.
