Make it make sense Numbers are fun to look at and shake your head, but why not bring them to life? by Madeline Vega I decided my driving problem was not really about speed or even distance. My mom used to act like an 8-minute trip over 2.9 miles to drop me off or pick me up from the high school was too much. It might take me four times as long to go only two miles farther to drop off my middle schooler. Why? There are more people in one square mile in Brooklyn than there are in my mom’s whole suburb. With all the people come all the stop lights and all the double parked vehicles. There are basically no parking spots, so almost everything requires parallel parking or blocking traffic—or blocking traffic while you try to parallel park. When I started looking into population density to see how much more crowded it is where I drive than where I needed my mom to drive me, I easily found census data for how densely populated hot spot New Rochelle is (7,445 people/mile2) and Broward County Florida (1,444 people/mile2) that refused to let cruiseships dock. Rather than bore you with my analysis and commentary, though, I made models with Lego people. Enjoy!
April 7, 2020 • Art
Department Weekly
9
