Notes:
- Mapping port on local machine:
ssh <yourusername>@gw.cusp.nyu.edu -L 2222:compute.cusp.nyu.edu:22- Uploading data:
scp <filepath> -P2222 localhost:<your path>
1) UrbanScience literature review
Deliverables: A web phub)ortal with automatically uploaded papers of US relevance Data: list of US papers (on github) Skills: NLP (word association), web scraping
2) Unpermitted construction NYC
Deliverables: model to identify unpermitted construction in NYC Data: 311 data, illegal dumping fines, violations (NYC data) Skills: data aggregation, some spatial stats
3) Dublin changes through LIDAR
Deliverables: automation of change detection and model to identify green areas by growth Data: LIDAR data (Debra Leafer’s data) https://drive.google.com/a/nyu.edu/file/d/14wPI3dqB7Q_HEDN3DWeJQ90B1JvbwCh2/view?usp=sharing Skills: data manipulation, some image processing, willingness to learn new packages References: https://drive.google.com/a/nyu.edu/file/d/16ySD2MffZkYu-7BtpzeR49TXuiBuVZdE/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/a/nyu.edu/file/d/1kpEeU0qmeMCUfWG83WwwY6zxDiAHWuXQ/view?usp=sharing
4) Flooding NYC
Deliverables: Model to predict true flooding high flooding risk Data: 311 - “digital elevation model” LIDAR data in NYC - various other sources Skills: data aggregation, geospatial data handling
5) SONYC telemetry data
Deliverables: exploration of spatial and temporal correlation of down times, map, timelaps map Data: telemetry data from Mohit Skills: stats, some geospatial stats
6) sexual assault sentiment analysis
Deliverables: visualization of sentiment, dictionary of relevant words for further modeling Data: tweets (current and historical), news sources Skills: NLP, web scraping (but that’s mostly already done), API
7) Modern day slavery exploration
Deliverables: map of modern day slavery, correlation analysis Data: Modern day slavery data (John Kastelan), country indicators (public), historical events from news sources Skills: stats, geospatial visualizations