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# Watching New York Run
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/watching-new-york-run/
- Published: 2011-06-17T10:15:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:03:33.000Z
- Description: A class in Interaction Design at New York's School of Visual Arts, has set about understanding how the city runs through data…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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A class in Interaction Design at [New York's School of Visual Arts](http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/ug/index.jsp?sid0=1&sid1=27&ref=protein.xyz), has set about understanding how the city runs through data and design. The class, taken by infographic design giant [Nicolas Felton](http://feltron.com/?ref=protein.xyz), poured through a dizzying 500,000-point heavy dataset of New York runners using Nike+. Between 7th September and 21st December 2010 the 1000 runners put in some 6986 miles. An equivalent to the air distance between Manhattan and Seoul.

The project paints a revealing portrait of where, when and how New Yorkers run. Once broken down the data can identify popularity in routes, times of day, patterns of pace and distance, and as [Cooper Smith](http://cargocollective.com/coopersmith?ref=protein.xyz#1327371/Nike-Plus-Visualization)'s above piece shows, trace the outline of the City.

However, as Allison Shaw point out in her ["Nike+ Is Kinda Bullshit"](http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/images/uploads/faculty/ashaw-nikeplus.png?ref=protein.xyz), this technology still needs some work. She points to the runner that paced himself so slowly he seemingly went back in time, a number running the speed of cars, altitude figures the height of airliners, and what could be a newly identified 'Bermuda Triangle' around the Guggenheim where a handful of NYC marathon runners appear to drop off the map.

Take a look at more of the great work from Felton's [SVA course](http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/students/show/category/nike%5Fvisualizations?ref=protein.xyz) here.