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What counts as a person?

The scanners can devide between children and grown ups by size. We guess that small grown ups are categorized as children by the algorithm. In the dataset we downloaded, the distinction is not...Read more

Visualizations from Pedestrian Counter Data

This document is a collection of screenshots that I made from data visualizations in the urban data platform as well as Hystreets website. The graphs look quite different although representing similar data.Read more

How Places matter

Interesting is the process in which it was defined, which places are worth of consideration in pedestrian counting.

When the places that should be measured were chosen, the focus was only on...Read more

Technical information on Laser Scanners provided by Hystreet.com GmbH

Here I copied the scarce technical specifications that Hystreet provides on its website.Read more

Background information on pedestrian traffic data

Here I collected some brief passages from policy papers that might come handy in connotative or deconstructive reading.Read more

Data mutation on the travel

The flow of electrones in the cables in the ground is altered due to electromagnetic interaction with metal that moves above them. These variantions in the flow are interpreted by sensors...Read more

Interview with employee of the municipal Economic Development GmbH

Here you find a translation of an interview that I conducted in German with an employee of the municipal GmbH Economic Development in order to find out more about data processing and sharing practices as well as about the use cases for pedestrian counters. It is slightly shortened for reasons of...Read more

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