James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti, "Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Big Data Can Be Used to Find Lead Pipes
i'm very proud of a series of maps we did about the city of flint, michigan. It made the news in the past decade with aled contamination of water. And by feeding all this information into a model, they were able to predict which parcels of land throughout the city were most likely to have med or galvanized pipes. But many residents who lived an areas that weren't targeted by the mal wanted the peace of mind to know their home was safe too. In fact, they didn't trust the data and so they successfully lobby the city to abandon the data driven model and just start going door to door digging up on parcels of land. The success rate plummeted to around
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