ARTIST BIO & STATEMENT
For this piece I was interested in visualizing how people arranged themselves in cities relative to their place of birth. I'd seen a number of maps categorizing neighbourhoods culturally, but I wanted to look "through the microscope" and uncover more subtle trends. To do so, I drew the city with 60,000 flags, proportionally sampled from the birthplaces of the foreign-born population in each census tract. Initially I started working with my current location of Toronto, but I found the available data to be lacking. Instead I chose to focus on New York because of its iconic geography and my familiarity with the city. The city's status as a traditional entry-point for immigrants and the currently radical spread of living costs between neighbourhoods make for an interesting study on how and where people live.
Paul is a data scientist with a focus on shaping complex data into appealing and informative visualizations. His past work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, BBC, and The Economist. He is an avid sailor and traveler who refuses to settle down until he's lived in ten cities (three more to go!) Paul currently lives in Toronto, Canada.
For this piece I was interested in visualizing how people arranged themselves in cities relative to their place of birth. I'd seen a number of maps categorizing neighbourhoods culturally, but I wanted to look "through the microscope" and uncover more subtle trends. To do so, I drew the city with 60,000 flags, proportionally sampled from the birthplaces of the foreign-born population in each census tract. Initially I started working with my current location of Toronto, but I found the available data to be lacking. Instead I chose to focus on New York because of its iconic geography and my familiarity with the city. The city's status as a traditional entry-point for immigrants and the currently radical spread of living costs between neighbourhoods make for an interesting study on how and where people live.
Paul is a data scientist with a focus on shaping complex data into appealing and informative visualizations. His past work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, BBC, and The Economist. He is an avid sailor and traveler who refuses to settle down until he's lived in ten cities (three more to go!) Paul currently lives in Toronto, Canada.