The project is a set of data visualizations aiming to answer the question - how safe is it to bike in NYC? These visualizations were made using publicly available data sets about biking in New York City, revealing information on Bicycle Counts, Bike Lane Amounts, Biking Distribution, and Injury and Fatality Counts throughout the past decade.

The New York City Department of Transportation and the New York City Department of Planning made the data sets available.

I began the project by creating visualizations to explain the current biking state in NYC. I want the audience to understand how common it is and the growth trend of biking, therefore establishing the importance of these visualizations.

Within this goal, I balanced complex and straightforward visualizations to bring two representations to the project. The complexity of the bicycle count graph emphasizes how widespread or significant biking has become, while the pictorial graph highlights how common biking is simply and directly.

There existed an obvious risk with biking as there existed data for the fatality and injury count, yet when compared to the fatalities and injuries within all accidents, bicyclists took up a minority in those percentages. In this sense, biking is not a prominent cause for concern.

At the end of the visualizations, I wanted to create a connection to the future of biking in New York City. Because of this, I ended with a snapshot of bike lane counts in the city, subtly hinting at this positive characteristic of the city.