public health – NewYorkScapes

Visualizing the Old Croton Aqueduct through Text and Augmented Reality

Nicholas Wolf — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:26:07 +0000

This project will contemporize Theophilus Schramke’s Description of the New-York Croton Aqueduct: In English, German and French and create a geographically relevant immersive experience. The endeavor will also digitize Schramke’s drawings and render them to three dimensions so that an immersive experience can be experienced with a cell phone. The underlying work itself is the compilation from…

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Racial Attitudes in Fifteen American Cities, 1968

Andrew Zuliani — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:31:48 +0000

To summarize: This study explores attitudes and perceptions related to urban problems and race relations in 15 northern cities of the United States (Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Gary, Milwaukee, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Washington, DC). More specifically, it seeks to define the social and psychological…

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National Crime Surveys: Cities, 1972-1975

Andrew Zuliani — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:56:57 +0000

This sample of the National Crime Survey contains information about victimization in 26 central cities in the United States. The data are designed to achieve three primary objectives: 1) to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime, 2) to estimate the numbers and types of crimes not reported to police, and 3) to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes…

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Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law, 1974-1984

Andrew Zuliani — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:01:26 +0000

This data collates monthly counts of arrests of juveniles for violent crime as reported by by police jurisdictions. Data are presented in counts broken down by type of crime; jurisdictions are grouped into regions. The original study was longitudinal and designed to assess the effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law (1978) on incidences of violent crime by juveniles.

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Department of Health Certificate of Need Applications: Beginning 1974

Andrew Zuliani — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:56:50 +0000

This dataset contains listing of health care and long-term care facilities, with coverage for New York City and New York state. It is presented with minimal documentation but the structured data is informative in terms of attributes. As the original data record states, the data was extracted from Certificate of Need (CON) applications, Limited Review Applications (LRAs) and Notices submitted by…

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Bodies in Transit

socialink — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:54:29 +0000

A transcription and data modeling project centering on the NYC Municipal Archives bodies in transit ledgers, this ongoing work looks at the individuals and officials at the heart of public health in the city in the second half of the nineteenth century. The transcriptions from the first phase of the project, conducted in the fall of 2014, have been made available to the Municipal Archives.

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Digital Almshouse Project

socialink — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:52:28 +0000

The Digital Almshouse Project captures the experiences of Irish-born patients admitted to New York’s Bellevue Almshouse between 1845 and 1852. In addition to tracing Irish-born Bellevue patients’ journeys through New York’s public health system, it also includes background on nineteenth-century immigration to New York City, a history of New York Public Health, descriptions of the population of…

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