These displays show “The Geography of Buzz” in Los Angeles (square) and Manhattan (rectangle), according to data collected and processed by Elizabeth Currid, an assistant professor in the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and Sarah Williams, the director of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University”˜s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation:
More at nytimes.com and at the website of Studio X (columbia.edu), where the Currid-Williams work is on display through May 8.