Past Event: One Dataset, Many Interpretations — September 26th

One dataset. A room full of ways to see it.

Nobody sees the dataset until the clock starts. Then everyone gets the same data at the same moment, with total freedom of tools: build whatever you see in it, share it in sixty seconds, and discover how differently the room read the same numbers.

The dataset: City of Minneapolis Public Tree Inventory

A map of Minneapolis public trees, each with a genus or species and a latitude and longitude. Despite its title, it is not published by the City of Minneapolis or the Park Board. The owner is a private ArcGIS account belonging to an independent Minneapolis researcher. By that researcher's own description, the main layer is the University of Minnesota MSP-LTER 2023 urban tree inventory and the planting layers were extracted from Park Board carbon credit filings; we have not verified either against the original sources. It is big, it is uneven, and it will not tell you what to look at. That is the point.

Open the data on ArcGIS