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App Turns NYC Subway Maps Into Interactive Data Visualizations

Tunnel Vision visualizes a trove of data sets to reveal stories about the Big Apple's transportation, population, and neighborhoods using computer vision.



If you’re a New Yorker who likes to nerd out about maps, urbanism, and data visualization, a new app called Tunnel Vision will be like poetry to your eyes. But even if you're not into any of those things, it might make dismal waits on subway platforms a little more fun.

When you point your smartphone at any MTA map, Tunnel Vision uses augmented reality to place stories about the city’s population, neighborhoods, and transportation on top of the map. Those are stories that, before the dawn of high-tech data viz, would’ve appeared as piles of boring numbers.

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