Check Out These Visualizations Of Where Detroit Bikes, Runs and Walks
Here’s where Metro Detroiters work out, and the cities that are the most active, but with the story told through visualized data. How was this made? The app RunKeeper took a sample of 1.5 million runs, walks and bike rides across the country and then mapped them as traces and put them over the street grid. The colors of the tracks show the route length, glowing white hot in the places where athletes most often travel. Longer routes over 20 miles render yellow, while shorter workouts range from...