The Neighbourhood Grader

Nate Silver from 538.com helped produce this fun little app for the New York Times webpage. It allows you to adjust slide bars for a dozen different neighbourhood metrics (e.g. "Affordability/Housing Cost", "Green space") and then see how each of the New York areas ranks against each other. I can just imagine how useful this sort of thing would be for every city, although the data gathering might be problematic, both in terms of accuracy and timeliness.