exploration

Tag: cycling

  • Riding Through Mountains (of Data)

    (Here is the documentation for my thesis project at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. PDF version here.) Riding through Mountains of Data: Visualizations of Cycling Robert Carlsen Interactive Telecommunications Program Tisch School of the Arts New York University Abstract This project attempts to describe the cycling experiences of several riders in New York City through a […]

  • Earth Day + Mobile Logger

    Thursday, April 22nd is Earth Day. The weather is looking to be sunny and 65 degrees in New York City. Sounds like a perfect day to ride your bike (or walk, run or whatever you like to do outside). Since you’re already going to be out there, why not log the trip, help me with […]

  • Mobile Logger on the App Store!

    After several rounds of rejection, Mobile Logger has been accepted and is available on the App Store! Feel free to try it out; hopefully some folks will find it useful. The source code for the application has been released under the GPL and is available on github. I’m still actively recruiting participants for my ongoing […]

  • Golden Cheetah 1.0.277 released!

    Golden Cheetah 1.0.277 released!

  • Visualizing (proxemic) space

    In conducting research for the CycleSense bicycle traffic proximity system I gathered data about the amount of space behind a bicycle rider traveling through typical New York City traffic at various times and locations. The initial visualization of this data was to graph the distances over time to look for specific events that the system […]

  • Wheel Building!

    I finally built my first bicycle wheel. I’ve wanted to do it for a long while, but never got around to doing it. The opportunity presented itself after the Zipp 404 clincher rim laced to my PowerTap hub cracked, again. This has happened more than a few times to me, so I requested that Zipp […]

  • Golden Cheetah releases a new version!

    Finally, the new work is public. Download available at http://www.goldencheetah.org/download.html. The biggest change is that the application now includes BikeScore. A metric developed by Dr. Phil Skiba based on TRIMPS and Andy Coggan’s TSS. These metrics aim to provide a way to quantify training load. It’s useful to help getting an appropriate amount of work […]