Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations
Dave Troy: Mapas sociales que revelan las interacciones en las ciudades... y las separaciones
The co-host of TEDxMidAtlantic, Dave Troy is a serial entrepreneur and a data-viz fan. Full bio
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and streets and buildings,
calles y edificios,
that led to their creation,
que condujo a su creación,
the bold vision of an urban designer,
de un urbanista.
to think about mapping cities
en el mapeo de ciudades
a new kind of map.
un nuevo tipo de mapa.
between people in my hometown
entre personas en mi ciudad,
each dot represents a person,
cada punto representa una persona,
between those people,
entre estas personas,
within the network.
dentro de la red comunitaria.
down on the far right where the geeks are,
abajo a la derecha donde están los frikis,
on the far right. (Laughter)
abajo a la derecha. (Risas)
African-American and Latino folks
gente afroamericana y latina
different things than the geeks are,
por cosas diferentes a las de los frikis.
we call Smalltimore,
llamada "Smalltimore",
we're living in a very small town.
en una pequeña ciudad.
over and over again,
we're not really exploring
de la ciudad.
in things like hip-hop music
como la música hip-hop
in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area
del área de DC/Maryland/Virginia
designation proper.
the two communities together,
the Baltimore Ravens football team,
en fútbol los Baltimore Ravens
is a Baltimore company,
es una empresa de Baltimore,
acts as the only bridge
actúa como un puente
different happening in San Francisco.
un poco distinto.
the media, politics and news lobe
de la política y las noticias
in Baltimore and other cities,
y otras ciudades,
very predominant group
muy predominante
taking over the top half of the network,
tomando la mitad superior de la red,
that's so distinct and clear
as Twitter employees,
como empleados de Twitter,
the gamers and the geeks,
de los "gamers" y los frikis,
of the hip-hop spectrum.
heard about in San Francisco
que se han producido en San Francisco
concerned about gentrification
por el aburguesamiento
that are bringing new wealth
que generan riqueza
that documented here.
with the geek community that well,
con la comunidad friki tan bien,
la musical.
a few weeks ago,
hace unas semanas,
on the ground in San Francisco,
allí en San Francisco
actually try to understand that
gathering data about Rio,
reuniendo datos sobre Rio
that stood out to me about this city
de esta ciudad
really kind of mixed up.
realmente mezclado.
that Baltimore or San Francisco is not.
que Baltimore o San Francisco no son.
políticos, columnistas,
politics, columnists.
cerca de escritores y blogueros.
right next to bloggers and writers.
diversidad de gente
tremendous diversity of people
en diferentes tipos de música.
in different kinds of music.
están representados.
are represented here.
and stand-up comedy,
en torno a las drogas y las bromas.
around drugs and jokes.
is also represented here.
and the arts and music,
artes, música
in a very different way,
de una forma muy distinta
with our understanding of Rio
con nuestro concepto de Rio
musically diverse city.
y musicalmente diversa.
that we have about cities now,
increíblemente rico sobre las ciudades,
that we've ever had before.
conjunto anterior.
that we can try to understand
es una construcción social
and we could choose not to do it,
y que podríamos evitar.
is aiming a space telescope at a city
la cafetería gigantesca de una escuela,
a giant high school cafeteria,
themselves in a seating chart.
en un plano de asientos.
the seating chart a little bit.
el plano de asientos un poco.
aproximación a la diversidad.
poor proxy for diversity.
from all different types of races
de todo tipo de razas
al desarrollo de la diversidad.
our development of diversity.
de usar la diversidad
more intractable problems,
sobre diversidad de otra forma.
about diversity in a new way.
de generar intervenciones
our cities in a new way,
nuestras ciudades de un nuevo modo,
we have that capability,
tenemos la responsabilidad de hacerlo.
responsibility to do so.
que es un área geográfica,
of streets and buildings,
is the sum of the relationships
es la suma de las relaciones
document those relationships in a real way
estas relaciones de un modo real,
esas ciudades que nos gustaría tener.
that we'd like to have.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dave Troy - TechnologistThe co-host of TEDxMidAtlantic, Dave Troy is a serial entrepreneur and a data-viz fan.
Why you should listen
Dave Troy is a serial entrepreneur and community activist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is CEO and product architect at 410 Labs, maker of the popular e-mail management tool Mailstrom.co. He has been acknowledged by the founding team at Twitter as the first developer to utilize the Twitter API, with his project “Twittervision,” which was featured in the 2008 MoMA exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind.” His crowdsourced project Peoplemaps.org uses social network data to map cities. He is also organizer of TEDxMidAtlantic and is passionate about data, cities, and entrepreneurship.
Read his post, "The Math Behind Peoplemaps."
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