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Our Entry for the Knight News Challenge: How can we harness data and...
We entered a project into the Knight News Foundation Challenge: How can we harness data and information for the health of communities? Our proposal is to further develop our CANVAS: Street View...
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Our Knight Foundation News Challenge project moves forward: so we made a video
Out of the 643 entries submitted to the Knight Foundation News Challenge, our project “Open CANVAS: A Web Application Harnessing Google Street View to Collect and Share Data on Neighborhoods” was one...
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Beyond Your Waist and Lungs: BEH Investigates Pedestrian Injury Risk
While most of our work to date has been concerned with physical activity, obesity and asthma, the built environment can also shape injury risk. Nearly 5,000 pedestrians in the U.S. are killed by motor...
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New Research Using Google Street View to Conduct Neighborhood ‘Virtual Audits’
Viewing 125th Street We recently published three papers describing our use of Google Street View to conduct ‘virtual-audits’ to collect observational data on neighborhood characteristic and conditions....
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Using Google Street View to Understand Pedestrian Injury Risk
Street Viewing 125th Street In 2013, an estimated 70 000 pedestrians were injured or killed by motor vehicles in the United States. In New York City more pedestrians than vehicle occupants have been...
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Can Big Data get us Better Estimates of Neighborhood Disorder?
Physical Disorder in Philadelphia estimated using Universal Kriging At the Built Environment and Health group, we try hard to measure neighborhood characteristics accurately. We systematically audit...
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Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Physical Activity Among Older Adults in NYC
Elements that are incorporated into the overall Neighborhood Disorder Scale score. Through the years, we have done a fair amount of work to collect and validate measures of neighborhood physical...
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Man on the Street or Google Street View to Measure Neighborhood Physical...
We’ve done a lot with Street View at the BEH, and we think the CANVAS application we developed to help teams do reliable and efficient virtual audits works pretty well. But we never really knew what...
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Newly Funded Work on Pedestrian Injury
We have recently been funded by NIH to conduct a four-year study of how urban design, the locations of alcohol selling establishments, night life districts and locations of services for the homeless...
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Improving the measurement of Neighborhood Physical Disorder
Neighborhood audit methods (AKA Systematic Social Observation) are often used to create measures of neighborhood built and social environments. But even with the enhanced efficiency of virtual...
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Machine Learning Approaches for Measuring Neighborhood Environments in...
We recently published a review article in Current Epidemiology Reports describing the use of machine learning to measure neighborhood environments in epidemiologic studies. Innovations in information...
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