New map uses infrared data to show where Chicagoans like to run, ride bikes

A heatmap using data compiled from a fitness app shows where Chicagoans like to run and take their bikes: in the city’s big parks and along streets that cut across the grid system.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schwab on February 2, 2018 at 4:53am

It isn't infrared. It is GPS devices.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on February 3, 2018 at 4:28am

This data is hugely biased to the point where it should be more or less disregarded. The people who use Strava are a subset of riders who are fitness oriented or at least fitness conscious and who bother to install and use the app(s) on a mobile device. This leaves out at least a large segment of commuters and utility riders, messengers etc.