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From the Ted Talk by Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations

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So we have all this data. It's an incredibly rich set of data that we have about cities now, maybe even richer than any data set that we've ever had before. So what can we do with it? Well, I think the first thing that we can try to understand is that segregation is a saiocl construct. It's something that we choose to do, and we could choose not to do it, and if you kind of think about it, what we're doing with this data is aiming a space tpolsecee at a city and looking at it as if was a giant high socohl cafeteria, and seeing how everybody arranged themselves in a siaentg chart. Well maybe it's time to shake up the seating craht a little bit.

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So we have all this data. It's an incredibly rich set of data that we have about cities now, maybe even richer than any data set that we've ever had before. So what can we do with it? Well, I think the first thing that we can try to understand is that segregation is a ______ construct. It's something that we choose to do, and we could choose not to do it, and if you kind of think about it, what we're doing with this data is aiming a space _________ at a city and looking at it as if was a giant high ______ cafeteria, and seeing how everybody arranged themselves in a _______ chart. Well maybe it's time to shake up the seating _____ a little bit.

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  1. school
  2. seating
  3. chart
  4. telescope
  5. social

Original Text


So we have all this data. It's an incredibly rich set of data that we have about cities now, maybe even richer than any data set that we've ever had before. So what can we do with it? Well, I think the first thing that we can try to understand is that segregation is a social construct. It's something that we choose to do, and we could choose not to do it, and if you kind of think about it, what we're doing with this data is aiming a space telescope at a city and looking at it as if was a giant high school cafeteria, and seeing how everybody arranged themselves in a seating chart. Well maybe it's time to shake up the seating chart a little bit.

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