Conferences & media appearances

Conferences

• APA Technology Committee Tech Talk Speaker: Street Tree Coverage analysis & Using Big Data to Support Public Space Research, NYC, New York, Jan 2020
• Bloomberg Data For Good Exchange 2019 Presenter: Using Big Data to Support Public Space Research, NYC, New York, Sep 2019
• Changing Cities IV, Smart Cities: smart environment, smart mobility, smart economy, Presenter: Using Big Data to Support Public Space Research, Chania, Greece, 2019
• Education, Design and Practice – Understanding Skills in a Complex World, Architecture MPS, Presenter: Using Big Data to Support Public Space Research, New Jersey, 2019
• Public X Design, Gehl Institute, Co-Leader of a 2 hours Hands-On Data Science Workshop on the topic: Measuring Housing Demolitions Impact Through Data Visualizations. The workshop included a Python tutorial, a walk through of Detroit’s open datasets, data cleaning, stratification, and visualizations delivered through an interactive Jupyter Notebook, Detroit, 2018
• NYU Technology Summit,MapMob: A User Engagement and Management Web Development Project, Presenter, New York, 2018
• NYU Langone Health Tech Symposium 2018, Poster Presenter, MapMob Project, New York, 2018

Other

• Coord, Guest Post, S(TREE)T: Calculating tree coverage on streets from open data in NYC , Jan 2020
• Guest Lecture at a Sustainable Urban Environments BS course: Methods for Studying Urban Environments, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, 2019
• NYU CUSP Applied Urban Science Group, Lightning Talk Speaker, MapMob Project, New York, 2018
• I AM GPH Podcast: EP13, interviewed about the MapMob project, 2018
• 2015 Youthful Cities conference's Webpage,YouthfulCities Tel Aviv delegate, Toronto, 2015
• TimeOut Tel Aviv , interviewed about YouthfulCities Tel Aviv (available in Hebrew), 2014

Publications

• Vantu, A., and Day, K. (2020). Using Big Data to Support Public Space Research in: Companion to Public Spaces, Routledge Companions (editors: Mehta, V., & Palazzo,. D)
• In progress:The Paradox of Housing Conditions; Gentrification, Code Violations, and The Politics of Growth. Sara Duvisac, Avigail Vantu, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Nicole Summers

Code documentation

• Jupyter Notebook produced for a hands-on workshop co-led with Eitan Akman at the Public X Design conference. Wrote code, produced visualizations and interpretations for a guided workshop. Available here.
• Github repository with course materials and tutorials on data mapping and Jupyter Notebooks Available here.