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- A Data Analyst's Blog Is Transforming How New Yorkers See Their City http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/11/28/367046864/a-data-analysts-blog-is-transforming-how-new-yorkers-see-their-city 11 comments
- Crunching subway data – a New Yorker’s busiest stations http://blogging.alastair.is/crunching-subway-data-a-new-yorkers-busiest-stations/ 8 comments
- Black New Yorkers Are Twice as Likely to Be Stopped by the Police, Data Shows https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/nyregion/nypd-arrests-race.html?mc_cid=53de158056&mc_eid=427ea9e1f1 15 comments politics
- Data Confirms Black New Yorkers Targeted for Social Distancing Violations at Higher Rates https://www.theroot.com/stop-and-frisk-but-in-a-pandemic-data-confirms-black-1843344047 15 comments politics
- Eat that Time Warner Cable. Cablevision offers REAL broadband with no data caps! New Yorkers rejoice! http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/cablevision-power-play-101mbps-internet-no-caps-99.ars 207 comments technology
- Black and Latino New Yorkers Trail White Residents in Vaccine Rollout — Data showed that while 24% of city residents are Black, only 11% of vaccine recipients were. White New Yorkers received a disproportionate share of the shots. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/nyregion/nyc-covid-vaccine-race.html 21 comments politics
- Airbnb was hit by a subpeona from NY attorney general, demanding user data for New Yorkers listed as members. http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/10/07/airbnb-hit-with-subpoena-from-n-y-attorney-general/?mod=e2tw 7 comments technology
- Google data shows New Yorkers doing less social distancing than people in Italy, Spain https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/google-data-shows-new-york-has-less-social-distancing-than-italy-spain/ 7 comments politics
- Jill Lepore reviews Michael P. Lynch's 'The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data' over at the New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/the-internet-of-us-and-the-end-of-facts?fb_action_ids=10103171696032611&fb_action_types=og.shares 7 comments philosophy
- New Yorker sues HP after researchers show how they can compromise an HP printer, steal data, and make it overheat via a remote update feature. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57339885-245/hp-sued-over-security-flaw-in-printers/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 5 comments technology