As I'm scouring the depths of Wikipedia learning about American historical sites, it is unbelievable how many places say "X was destroyed by fire" in the 19 or 20th century. #grateful for modern building design
At the cemetery beside Trinity Church in #NYC, there's a grave for Charlotte Temple - a fictional character from a 1791 bestseller. #USHistory#FunFact#HearHere
In the 1800's, there was a #quarantine facility on Staten Island, isolating hundreds with yellow fever. But after fifty years of operation, islanders got angry and began the "Staten Island Quarantine War," burning it to the ground. #USHistory#FunFactOfTheDay#HearHere#NYC
The roots of @UDelaware began in 1743... in Pennsylvania. And then it received 90,000 acres from a federal land grant post Civil War... in Montana. #FunFactOfTheDay#USHistory Full Story on #hearhere
...like how the first permanent settlers of the state of Delaware were... Swedish. They settled at Fort Christina in modern day Wilmington, DE. Look for the full story on the app soon! #USHistory#FunFactOfTheDay
Living the nomadic #vanlife, I spend a lot of time on the road across America. I work with @HearHereDotCom, capturing these stories for the perfect road trip. On this journey, I've learned some wild untold US history...
@ZacharyStansell Super cool! Would love to see how these have changed over time... a bit janky but I built a crop timeline for the world a few months ago: https://t.co/ZzC5cDDXYt
The scaffolding for Mars College - a high tech, low cost, leave no trace, (hopefully) COVID free space in the middle of the desert which will be finished within a few weeks. We are wayyy ahead of you Elon! #marscollege
The road is my office and this 17 foot 2000 Dodge Roadtrek is my home.
World, meet Cocoa Calypso, the product of a six week van hackathon and a whole lot of love.
#vanlife#cocoathecamper#roadtrek
Excellent visualization by Amy Fang - one of the @CivicDataDesign undergrads on the #missingdata project - showing when states started implementing mask mandates...and how disjointed reopening process really is. #mitdusp#dataviz#Masks#COVID19 https://t.co/thZhP5EJ4T
In this week's post from @Yuan_Lai_ we use #NLP and graph visualization to discover the underlying thematic structure of COVID-19 research based on 47000+ manuscripts and its connection to #UrbanScience#COVID19 https://t.co/tBrg9jGkwn
I've had the pleasure to oversee the Missing Data Project at the MIT @CivicDataDesign Lab at @MITdusp for the last month. This summer, we are showing how #missingdata in the context of COVID highlights societal inequity and policy. https://t.co/iKzeTBljVR