Where Angelinos love to run...

 Now this is a cool map! Check it out to see just where Angelinos love to run.

 

Using data from run-tracking app RunKeeper, Nathan Yau of FlowingData (via Deadspin's Regressing) has created very pretty maps showing where people (who use the app) run in 22 different cities. He writes "If there's one quick (and expected) takeaway, it's that people like to run by the water and in parks," and that's certainly true in Los Angeles, where you can see the path by the LA River, the area around Elysian Park, the Silver Lake reservoirs loop, and Echo Park Lake are all a dark purple. But people apparently also love to run around the Downtown street grid (and down to USC), and on Los Feliz and Sunset Boulevards. Westsiders all run at Equinox apparently. Yau says that besides being cool to look, the maps could also be useful to "city planners who make sure citizens have proper bike lanes and running paths."

More info here:  http://flowingdata.com/2014/02/05/where-people-run/

Mapping LA's Most Rapidly-Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Highland Park isn't gentrifying nearly as much as it seems to be, but Venice certainly is. These and more surprises in PropertyShark's new map comparing median home price to household income--a higher ratio (darker color on the map) means home prices are more out of whack with what existing residents can actually afford, suggesting that the neighborhood is fancifying quickly (note, though, that these are asking prices, which are not quite as useful as sale prices). You wouldn't think Los Feliz (ratio: 31), central-west Santa Monica (48), or gated little Bradbury (33) could get radically more expensive, but they're three of the hottest spots, along with an area in the heart of Downtown (30). Gentrification poster children like Highland Park (8) and Silver Lake (9/16) are surprisingly balanced, but up-and-comer gentrification zones Echo Park (16/20, mostly) and Mid-City (20) are swiftly getting less balanced. Below a list of the zip codes that are most unaffordable right now.

Click here for the map and zoom in for zip-code-level data.