So Trashy uses D3.js to create data visualization to represent New York City's Department of Sanitation's (DSNY) monthly collection of refuse and recycling from 2014 to 2018.
- View So Trashy here: http://sotrashy.surge.sh/
DSNY collects residential and public school refuse and recycling, empties street litter baskets, cleans up abandoned property such as cars, tires and bicycles and collects other types of refuse, such as the detritus left in public spaces after Superstorm Sandy. DSNY does not pick up commercial refuse from offices, shops, business, institutions or construction sites.
DSNY publishes monthly reports detailing how many tons of refuse, paper/cardboard and metal/glass/plastic/drink carton has been collected, categorized by borough and further categorized into Community District (CD). Currently the monthly report does not contain data on how much organic material is being collected.
- View the DSNY Monthly Tonnage Data here: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DSNY-Monthly-Tonnage-Data/ebb7-mvp5
- View the DSNY Recycling Diversion and Capture Rates here: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/Recycling-Diversion-and-Capture-Rates/gaq9-z3hz
- I am a New York City resident and I am interested in learning about how much waste my city produces to satisfy a general curiosity about how the city works.
- I am an ecologically-minded New York City resident and I am interested in learning about how much waste my city produces with the goal of motivating myself to generate less waste.
- I am a fiscally-minded New York City resident and I am interested in learning about how much waste my city produces with the goal of motivating myself to generate less waste in order to save the city money.
- I am a student/researcher/reporter/planner and I'd like to use this tool for research purposes.
- I am a city bureaucrat and I'm interested in learning how residents engage with and manipulate public data.
- Landing page: https://i.imgur.com/YDgtOw0.jpg
- Sample page: all trash/recycling for all boroughs: https://i.imgur.com/yKh8Y8Z.jpg
- Sample page: all trash/recycling city-wide totals: https://i.imgur.com/34ZeFxf.jpg
- Sample page: all trash/recycling Brooklyn: https://i.imgur.com/GDkuzLs.jpg
- Sketchbook doodles: https://i.imgur.com/ahHRqKN.jpg
- Visualization of all refuse generate by the city (landing page)
- Visualization of all refuse generate by the city, broken down by type: trash, paper, metal/plastic/glass/carton
- Visualization of all refuse, by borough, broken up by community district/neighborhood
- Toggle year (2014 through 2018)
- https://viewing.nyc/interactive-map-lets-you-track-new-york-citys-14-million-tons-of-garbage/
- http://www.waste.exposed/
- http://www.opentrashlab.com/research
d3.js
- Visualization of refuse generated by neighborhood, adjusted for population
- View & compare trash stats over time
- Visualization of all refuse, totals by all boroughs