Garrett Dash Nelson

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Geographer-at-large, here and there, then and now.

Factotum-general at @bplmaps

personal websitehttp://people.matinic.us/garrett
orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2515-6514
work websitehttps://www.leventhalmap.org/about/people/garrett-nelson/
Garrett Dash NelsonFeb 7, 2023

I put together a cartogram visualization of the municipal property tax base in Massachusetts.

Here's residential property—first shown as absolute values (big Boston), then per capita (big resort towns), then per land area (big Cambridge, Brookline, inner suburbs)

https://observablehq.com/d/286e3e9a1027528c

Massachusetts Municipal Property Base

A dorling cartogram showing the municipal property tax base of cities and towns in Massachusetts. Assessment data is as of 2023, from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue Division of Local Services. ** ** valuations range from $ to $ Functions

Observable
Garrett Dash NelsonFeb 2, 2023

How much is an MBTA commuter rail fare relative to the distance you'd otherwise have to drive? I ran an analysis for the whole system:

https://www.datawrapper.de/_/PgDA7/

MBTA Commuter Rail fares versus driving distance | Created with Datawrapper

How much is a one-way commuter rail fare relative to the actual road distance it would take to drive from the station to the terminal station? Hover over each point on the scatterplot to see data about individual stations.

Create charts and maps with Datawrapper
Show threadGarrett Dash NelsonJan 26, 2023
🎵black is the color of my true love’s hair 🎵like the asphalt by which lies a cheesecake fair
Garrett Dash NelsonJan 26, 2023
Getting my sweetheart a literal web map of a parking lot to show the profundity of my love
Garrett Dash NelsonJan 14, 2023
As then, so today (Boston Globe editorial from 1944)
Garrett Dash NelsonJan 4, 2023
Charlie Baker’s last day on the job 🥲
Garrett Dash NelsonJan 4, 2023
Vance RicksJan 4, 2023

(reminder) APPLICATIONS DUE Tuesday 10 January 2023:

New #NSF-funded program in #AIEthics and #DataEthics at #NortheasternUniversity!

In summers 2023 - 2025, we'll bring in cohorts of approx. 10 #philosophy (or related) graduate students to #Boston for 10 weeks, for training in #AIEthics and #DataEthics from our faculty and visiting scholars.

$12k stipend per student

More details+application info for the summer 2023 cohort at the program website:

https://cssh.northeastern.edu/ethics/summer-grad-training-program/

Summer Training Program to Expand the Al and Data Ethics Research Community

This summer school is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, or other areas with potential research applications to AI and big data who would like to develop research capacities in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), data ethics, and the philosophy of technology.  Designing AI and […]

The Ethics Institute
Garrett Dash NelsonDec 1, 2022
The path to national political power runs through the Melrose school committee
Garrett Dash NelsonNov 23, 2022
Show threadStreetsblogMASSNov 23, 2022

Comment from the editor @cmilneil:

This story is a good illustration of the double standards for transit safety vs. roadway safety. Nobody's been hurt there, but the T is preemptively closing this station entrance; meanwhile, blatantly unsafe MassDOT/DCR infrastructure on adjacent roadways has killed two pedestrians in the past year – and nobody's talking about closing those roads until we can fix them.

Garrett Dash NelsonNov 22, 2022
On the plus side, I might get $50 back in a state income tax surplus check