Can Data Make Our Cities Better? Lessons From CARTO’s Data Conference

Central Park is most popular on Wednesday while Prospect Park is busiest on Sunday.

This was one of many big-data insights shared at Bushwick mapping startup CARTO’s Spatial Data Science Conference earlier this month.

Another was that Big Data may actually be Bad Data. According to Peter Lenz, an analyst at adtech firm Dstillery, the data often indicates that people are moving faster than the speed of sound, which, even in famously brisk-walking New York, doesn’t quite pass the smell test.

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