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Around the world, researchers like Howes are investigating how nonvisual information defines the character of a city and affects its livability. Using methods ranging from low-tech sound walks and smell maps to data scraping, wearables, and virtual reality, they’re fighting what they see as a limiting visual bias in urban planning.
Why Sounds and Smells Are as Vital to Cities as the Sights
Jennifer Hattam
Parking accounts for 10 percent of the manmade landscape in the Valley of the Sun.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
The only nonintuitive twist with OLS is that the formula takes the square of each residual before adding them all up (which increases the weight given to observations that lie particularly far from the regression line, or the “outliers”).
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
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