NYPL Labs @ Wiki ♡ Maps 2015

NYPL Labs @ Wiki ♡ Maps 2015
Helsinki, Finland, February 5, 2015

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1. mauricio giraldo arteaga @mgiraldo nypl labs a few things we’ve learned so far wiki ♥ maps , helsinki, february 2015
2. hei
3. my name is mauricio
6. NYPL Labs
10. we’ve been at it for 3+ years
11. a few things we’ve learned so far
12. disclaimer
13. a few things we’ve i’ve learned so far
14. four things
15. practical
16. 1
17. start with a prototype
25. menus.nypl.org
26. 200k dishes in 13k menus
27. made the case for NYPL Labs
28. it started with a prototype
37. “wouldn’t it be cool if…?”
41. A FEW DAYS later…
44. distill the task to its critical components
45. prototypes help determine viability
46. prototypes help communicate the idea
47. –@mikeindustries “a prototype is worth a thousand meetings”
50. “great! it’s just polish now, right?”
51. 2
52. “polish” takes (a lot of) time
55. 3 months later…* *REAL NUMBER
58. stereo.nypl.org
62. still, three months is not that long when you’re used to year-long projects
63. …and polish is good
64. LATER that day at 1:00AM…
67. so far 47,000 images created
68. another “smaller” example
75. took about 2 weeks
76. spacetime.nypl.org
77. A FEW HOURS later…
79. a good problem to have?
80. also, polish can wait
83. could use a redesign
87. 1.1 million more dishes and that’s even though we’re not scanning menus as often
88. curatingmenus.org by @katie_rawson and @trevormunoz
89. @_BadTaste_ by @bibliotechy
90. polish works
91. “polish” is design
92. …but it takes time
93. “ok… so i just factor this in my planning”
94. 3
95. everything takes longer than anticipated
96. people are bad at making estimates* *S. Grimstada, M. Jørgensena, 2007; I. Newby-Clark, M. Ross, R. Buehler, D. Koehler, D. Griffin, 2007; V. Mahnič, T. Hovelja, 2012; and more…
97. (yeah, even in “agile development”)
98. people cannot estimate what they have not done
99. –@jasonfried “planning is guessing”
100. legacy website redesign ca. 2005
104. “let’s take 90 days to redesign this”
105. (huge red flag)
106. there are always surprises usually not the good kind of surprises
111. “we have to have this feature”
112. 18 months later…
121. digitalcollections.nypl.org
122. start with a scope or a deadline
123. …but not both
124. don’t take too long
125. –@schuyler “if you're proud of your code you waited too long to ship it”
126. …but take as long as it needs
127. …and prepare for surprises
128. 4
129. hackathons are starting points
132. year
133. street names year
134. use type street names year
135. use type street names name year
136. material use type street names name year
137. material use type street names name class year
138. material use type street names address name class year
139. material use type street names address floors name class year
140. material use type street names address floors name class year skylights
141. material use type street names address floors name class year skylights backyards
142. material use type street names address floors name class geo location year skylights backyards
143. footprint material use type street names address floors name class geo location year skylights backyards
144. footprint material use type street names address floors name class geo location year skylights backyards
146. “wouldn’t it be cool if…?”
149. can we automate this?
159. FIVE WEEKS later…
161. github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer
164. ~80k building footprints in a day instead of years
166. this resulted in a new question
167. “is the output any good?”
168. …so we did a prototype
173. buildinginspector.nypl.org
174. 2 MONTHS later…
179. 84%: YES 7%: FIX or about 91% good enough
180. we ♥ our contributors
181. we ♥ our contributors
182. …so we did more prototypes!
185. 1 million classifications so far! ~18 months since launch
190. …and it all started in a hackathon
191. recap
193. start with a prototype
194. start with a prototype polish takes time
195. start with a prototype polish takes time everything takes longer than anticipated
196. start with a prototype polish takes time everything takes longer than anticipated hackathons are starting points
197. thank you ♥ images from: NYPL digital collections - Wikimedia Commons - Flickr user wallyg - Giphy - John Resig - Peter Leonard mauricio giraldo arteaga @mgiraldo nypl labs