Sentences with phrase «data about cities»

Yet when my collaborators and I looked at tremendous amounts of data about cities, we found universal scaling laws again.

Numbeo is a collection of Web pages containing numerical and other itemizable data about cities and countries, designed to enable anyone to contribute or modify content.

Numbeo is the world's largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide.

Taylor's resignation comes after two weeks in which the Homeless Services Commissioner appeared to have a less - than - full command of data about the city's homeless shelter system during testimony he gave to the City Council, and during a sit - down television interview.

A Colorado insurance company will utilize statistical data about your city, county, or state to determine your financial status.

Google's not joined calls for the governor to resign, but it has just given $ 150,000 to the University of Michigan to help researchers gather data about the city's pipes to predict where high levels of lead might be found and determine which ones need to be replaced.

Not exact matches

New York City taxi regulators released data about millions of cab rides, providing useful research data but also raising questions about privacy.

Many of the potential data buyers Otonomo has signed are the same ones the automakers talk about: insurance companies, mechanics, gas stations, city planners, fast - food joints.

About one in five homes resold in Perth are done so at a loss, new data has revealed, with the city's western suburbs among the hardest hit.

Although the polling was initially set to be national in scope, we decided to «oversample» the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in order to obtain statistically significant data about our own city.

Blacks accounted for about 19 percent of Minneapolis» population in 2010 but just about 9 percent of the city's police officers in 2013, according to U.S. data.

The Regional Household Debt and Credit Snapshot includes data about mortgages, student loans, credit cards, auto loans and delinquencies for New York City and its boroughs, as well as various metro areas in New York State, northern New Jersey and western Connecticut.

Adam will talk about the use of data analytics, strategic partnerships and integrated solutions with cities to impact future planning for disruptive new industries.

AI, Internet of Things and Augmented Reality are about to reinvent how industries utilize data — and could drive an era of productivity growth in our cities, farms, factories and hospitals.

You can read more about our new methodology here and access rent data by city here.

Data from Australian Property Monitors show that inner - city apartment prices in Melbourne have fallen by around 4 per cent from their peak, while prices in Sydney have fallen by about the same amount over the two quarters to June, though they remain 8 per cent higher over the year.

I offer these data about the respective religious compositions of the two cities with the consciousness of now; back then distinctions of this kind would have largely escaped me and, I think, most of my fellow twin cities Jews as well.

For example, when a Scandinavian city fire department decided to install an information retrieval system to give fire fighters instant read - outs of information about the fire - capabilities of any given address, they chose an American computer data base company because it entered the lowest bid.

Expected goals — the number of goals you're expected to score and concede based on the historical data behind the locations of the shots you take and concede — suggest that City were the best team in the league last year by about a 14 - goal margin.

Based at City University London, the ESS has become one of the largest and most reliable sources of data about Europe's evolving social, political and moral fabric.

«If the company actually cared about real New Yorkers, they would work with the city to track down those who violate the law by releasing raw data on all hosts, rather than cherry - picking information that they know makes enforcement impossible,» he said.

The comptroller's office took a «non-biased, data - driven approach» to the available data to draw conclusions about Airbnb's irrefutable effects on the city's economy, the spokeswoman said.

Some immigrant advocates expressed concern about how the city would manage the data to maintain privacy.

About 80 percent of New Yorkers who smoke took up the habit before they turned 21 years old, a city Health Department analysis of data from 2004 to 2007 shows.

When asked about how the city could better use data to confront budget issues, Commisso responded:

It is about data, it is about numbers for them, but it's about people for me and we have made so many decisions in the city of Albany that have just been driven by data, but have had a negative impact on the lives of people.»

Long Beach is home to about 1 percent of Long Island's population, but eight of the 10 highest - paid town and city employees islandwide work for the city, a Newsday analysis of payroll data shows.

Responding to complaints over a lack of transparency, Airbnb released a horde of data about its New York City operations — but also confirmed that a majority of its rentals may violate New York's short - term leasing law.

«I think we'll be able to do some pretty good data snapshots about what's at stake both in terms of what's going to happen in Washington, how that will trickle down on the state and then how that can affect New York City,» Stringer said.

New York City implemented the plan for the first time last school year; according to Tuesday's data, about 92 percent of teachers were rated «effective» or «highly effective,» and just over 1 percent of teachers got the lowest rating, «ineffective.»

According to data provided by City Hall, Ponte conducts weekly focus groups with wardens and captains in order to hear feedback from those working in the jails and conducts department - wide surveys about his new policies to gauge the officers» rate of approval.

New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm sponsored a recently passed bill requiring corrections officials to report detailed data about who is held in solitary, why and for how long, after officials refused to provide him with data he requested.

Using the Google Hangout's chat function, participants such as Joe Kerns, co-founder of the start - up Roundview.co and a volunteer with the New York City Code for America brigade betaNYC, and Chris Whong, a data solutions activist at Socrata who is co-captain of betaNY, asked questions about the degree to which information about constituent services prompted by social media and other avenues is available as public data for analysis.

Common Council President Darius Pridgen says the Buffalo Police Department is required to provide quarterly and yearly data about their checkpoints held around the city, but has not provided that data.

Four months after Cuomo announced a state of emergency on the New York City subways, transit officials said they have reduced the average 45 - minute response time to an emergency by about half, as part of new data to be released this week.

Miner also unveiled a new data system that is expected to provide city residents and employees alike with vastly enhanced information about the street - level operations of city government.

Steven Johnson, writer and online entrepreneur, has a piece for Wired in which he explains what the treasure trove of data collected by New York City's 311 non-emergency reporting system can tell us about the swirling... Read More

In her State of the City Address tonight, Miner will unveil a new data system that is expected to provide city residents and employees alike with vastly enhanced information about the street - level operations of city governmCity Address tonight, Miner will unveil a new data system that is expected to provide city residents and employees alike with vastly enhanced information about the street - level operations of city governmcity residents and employees alike with vastly enhanced information about the street - level operations of city governmcity government.

In Part 2 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about the city's data on sexual harassment complaints in city government, his views on safe injection sites, and a corruption case involving former NYPD officials.

In a significant step toward increasing transparency, the New York Police Department has created a website with detailed data about each major crime that takes place in the city.

The New York Police Department has created a website with detailed data about each major crime that takes place in the city.

Looking at hospital admission data from 12 major cities, including Dublin, London, Barcelona, and Rome, they found that for every 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) of temperature increase, hospitalizations from respiratory and asthma - related illness rise by as much as 4.5 percent among the elderly.

Still, Venkatasubramanian, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, is optimistic about the future of this important corner of computer and data science.

One expert on racial inequality, economist Samuel Myers of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, calls for the same type of comprehensive analysis to be done for NSF; overall funding rates for black scientists who apply for NSF grants are about 4 percentage points lower than for whites, according to the agency's own data since 2002.

Such cities will integrate data from a variety of different sensors placed to record information about factors important to daily life — including air quality, traffic and weather — and then initiate some action if needed.

To examine available clinical data about e-cigarette use and cessation among cancer patients, Jamie Ostroff, PhD, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and her colleagues studied 1074 cancer patients who smoked and were enrolled between 2012 and 2013 in a tobacco treatment program within a comprehensive cancer center.

Lin also plans to use their data to make projections about Salt Lake's emissions future, including the city's goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent by the year 2040.

In each city, 1000 people will get an app through which they can share data about themselves to help firms or government groups create products or services to improve the city, such as better play areas in parks.

For example, a person may decide that location - tracking data about parks they visit can be used by the city council but not by firms.

Symons says publicly available data such as social media posts could be combined with location data to better understand how people feel about different parts of the city.