i knew that new orleans is cool but i didn’t know that it’s “ride in 100 year old streetcars that are 1 of 2 moving national historical landmarks” cool

searched for ire posts, did not disappoint. my little guy also wanted to come with

anyone know what this is about? saw one on my gate and all around my NW chicago neighborhood

we used this data for our central viz, showing how class boundaries of the city have evolved.

last year, we stumbled upon chicago factbooks - the only source of historic chicago rent data, going back to 1930. without the resources for a larger digitization project, we took the simplest approach: manual data entry. once we adjusted the rents for inflation, the facts really came to life… 🧵