Ari Ofsevit Profile picture
Sarcasm is the exception which proves the rule. It's the rule, too.
Apr 9, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
So the bad news: Massachusetts has had its highest day of covid cases and wastewater in a while.

The good news? The second derivative is going in the right direction.

So N*te S*lver <rose emoji> wasn't exactly wrong.

MWRA data is above last fall's baseline, although not by that much and the rate of increase is falling. It's going up nowhere near as quickly as it did during Delta or Omicron. Image
Mar 22, 2022 7 tweets 1 min read
Do you like ice cream? If you do, you should support lots of new housing. We should be able to agree that the best ice cream is served at a local, neighborhood ice cream shop that you can walk to.
Mar 21, 2022 5 tweets 5 min read
First train! First we waited in the station and the gate didn’t work.

Substantially complete != complete but here we are. The fare payment system is not going to work. And the fare boxes on the train weren’t on yet!
Apr 25, 2020 13 tweets 4 min read
So! @MassDOT finally updated their data stream for AET toll gantry data. Still missing some, but most updated through April 10. Some interesting trends (thread)

@universalhub @adamtvaccaro Notes:

This is looking at weekly averages for weekdays since March 1. If you can't figure out what a weekday is anymore, well, sorry. (Saturdays are still > Sundays, I'll run that soon)

There seem to be data issues for the gantries at Blandford, Lee and the Tobin Bridge.
Jan 14, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read
I'm staying up way too long playing with @mhpdata's Data Town feature. It's an easy way to explore all sorts of demographic data. mhpcenterforhousingdata.shinyapps.io/DataTown/ But I want to address housing production. Since 2010, the regional population (Boston MSA, minus NH portion) has grown by 7.3%. factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableser…

Where has the production of multifamily housing kept up?