Comments on: Paint by Numbers – SF Addresses

By: The Mean Streets of PDX | extent(PNW)

The Mean Streets of PDX | extent(PNW) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:59:38 +0000

[...] is wholly unoriginal (see Andy Woodruff’s “Paint by Numbers” post, as well as a follow-up for San Francisco at The Swordpress) and more artsy than data-y, some interesting aspects of the area’s [...]

By: Ghost in the Shell « Burrito Justice

Ghost in the Shell « Burrito Justice — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:16:02 +0000

[...] Friberg kindly points out Tim Sinnot‘s SF adaptation of Andy Woodruff’s paint-by-numbers idea — “displaying all [...]

By: Andy Woodruff

Andy Woodruff — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:29:15 +0000

This is great – every bit as striking as I had hoped for! Excellent work. San Francisco sure has some interesting patterns.

I think I got discouraged by trying to do this with Boston first, which (as you may have noticed in my post) has a ton of low street numbers and just a few high ones, which really suppresses any overall patterns; but at the same time there are just enough higher street numbers that trying to put more color classes on the low end still manages to have a similar effect. But now this seems worth revisiting. If only every city had such a good data resource! The individual address points here make for a better map than the block-by-block stuff from the Census.

So glad you picked up the torch!