Try “Street Smart” Walk Score

We’ve been hard at work creating a preview of Street Smart Walk Score—an enhanced version of Walk Score that uses walking distances rather than crow-flies distances to calculate your score.

Street Smart Walk Score also looks at the underlying road network to compute the number of intersections per square mile and average block length. These two measures are great indicators of walkability.

Preview Street Smart Walk Score:

Map your Linkedin Connection- Personalized Data Visualization of Your Proffessional Network

Wow, this is cool!  I am already a bit of a data-visualization geek, and Linkedin's new lab allows you to explore the interconnectivity within your own Linkedin contacts, which is amazing.  I mapped my personal connections below, and each color roughly corresponds to an industry, an association or social grouping (like college) to which I might belong.  Zoom in and you begin to see affiliations among your various relationships.

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InMaps!