Christopher Kennedy, Author at Public Seminar

An open source mobile app democratizes access to local climate data

New technologies such as augmented reality and data visualization tools have emerged over the past decade offering new ways for audiences to not only view and understand big data, but to also interact with it. ...

Art & Design

5 Charts that Explain COVID-19 Impacts in NYC

Social Vulnerability Indicators Predict Inequity in NYC COVID-19 Cases

May 4, 2020 • by Timon McPhearson, Ahmed Mustafa, Luis Ortiz, Zbigniew Grabowski, Pablo Herreros Cantis, Christopher Kennedy and Claudia Tomateo Chang

Once again frontline, low income and communities of color are most impacted. At the time of this writing, there have been 147,297 confirmed cases and 15,869 deaths in New York City, with the City on mandatory “P.A.U.S.E” until May 15, 2020. In early March, the Urban Systems Lab team asked the question, ...