I’m a bit behind on my painting queue but I just finished this one. It’s heading to NY.

This is a painting I did back in September as a birthday gift.

… I would probably fail the class, but here’s one I’ve been working on anyways: By the Red Line.

By the Red Line by ireneros

In light of this administration’s push towards open data and transparency, the folks at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation released a tremendous amount of data about the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority).

One of the many efforts by the massDOT (Massachusetts Department of Transportation) group has been to create a development community around this vast amount of data, which you can read more about here.

I decided to answer their call for entries to a Visualization Challenge with a project I call A Day of MBTA.

I would love to hear your feedback.

Although not a recent discovery, the Brushes iPhone app is pretty fantastic when traveling. I’ve painted a few quick doodles with it and figured, I might as well share.