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Category Archives: Street View
Machine Learning Approaches for Measuring Neighborhood Environments in Epidemiologic Studies
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 technology, initiatives by local governments to share administrative data, and growing inventories of data … Continue reading
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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 neighborhood audit methods using CANVAS-Street View, it is generally not possible to collect … Continue reading
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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 influence pedestrian fatality risk. We will be conducting … Continue reading
Man on the Street or Google Street View to Measure Neighborhood Physical Disorder
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 we might be missing … Continue reading
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Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Physical Activity Among Older Adults in NYC
Through the years, we have done a fair amount of work to collect and validate measures of neighborhood physical disorder – urban deterioration – using our CANVAS/Google Street View system. Neighborhood disorder is controversial construct and measure, not only because … Continue reading
Can Big Data get us Better Estimates of Neighborhood Disorder?
At the Built Environment and Health group, we try hard to measure neighborhood characteristics accurately. We systematically audit Street View imagery, we use LiDAR scans to assess tree canopy, and we use business registration records to profile neighborhood retail. A … Continue reading
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Using Google Street View to Understand Pedestrian Injury Risk
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 killed by motor vehicles each year since at least 1910. Pedestrian … Continue reading
Posted in CANVAS, Pedestrian Injury, Safety, Street View
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New Research Using Google Street View to Conduct Neighborhood ‘Virtual Audits’
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. A long established approach to collecting data on neighborhood conditions is to send trained observers to … Continue reading
Posted in CANVAS, Methods, Physical Disorder, Street View, Urban Design, Walkability
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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 vehicles ever year, and a small … Continue reading
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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 of the 40 projects selected as finalists. Each … Continue reading
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