Sometimes you just happen upon something

Blogs can lead to interesting places. I started with NYTimes Freakonomics blog. That led to a blog that I hadn't seen yet called frumination. I followed the link because we are currently conducting an audit of transportation outcomes and this link was about what would be the effect if there were no subways in New York. The author of the frumination blog took data available from the Metropolitan Planning Organization of New York (an organization required for federal transportation funding) to do his/her analysis. Another blogger took the data and visualized it in another way. This shows the power of making data available and transparency.