http://www.democratizingdata.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:20:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.democratizingdata.com/2012/01/25/school-closing-map-for-the-public-school-notebook-and-plan-phily/ http://www.democratizingdata.com/2012/01/25/school-closing-map-for-the-public-school-notebook-and-plan-phily/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:25:10 +0000 admin http://www.democratizingdata.com/?p=56 Continue reading →]]> In November of 2011, the School District of Philadelphia released the names of nine schools slated for closure and sixteen schools slated for grade reconfiguration. Within hours, PlanPhilly and the Public School Notebook had an interactive map with the most up to date information on their websites. Teachers, students and community members can toggle on an off the School District Planning Areas and Councilmanic Districts. They can also see important relevant data for each school, including Facility Condition Index and School Performance Index.

]]> http://www.democratizingdata.com/2012/01/25/school-closing-map-for-the-public-school-notebook-and-plan-phily/feed/ 0 http://www.democratizingdata.com/2011/12/13/hello-world/ http://www.democratizingdata.com/2011/12/13/hello-world/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:53:02 +0000 admin http://www.democratizingdata.com/?p=1 Continue reading →]]> The Billboard Project is a series of 54 billboards featuring photographs by Zoe Strauss, installed as part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition Zoe Strauss: Ten Years. Maneto Mapping and Analysis created customized route maps that allowed visitors to plan their trip to see the billboards. Visitors can choose to either get directions to all billboards in order or to create a custom route to see the billboards they wanted to see.

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