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Adoption and outreach of OSCUR’s software, data and community at New York University, the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Washington, by year of the NSF awards. Each year runs from September to August. The numbers are collected again every time the site is published.

Last updated October 20, 2026, 16:10 UTC.

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MetricY1 Sep 2024 to Aug 2025Y2 Sep 2025 to Aug 2026Y3 (so far) Sep 1 to Oct 20, 2026
CI Software Ecosystem
[1]1162
[2]4152,7089,728
[3]205302311
Cloud Environment
Users at large[4]000
External cloud deployments[5]000
Urban Data
Curated datasets[6]5060
[7]6483,3613,367
Community metrics
Hackathon attendance (per hackathon)[8]030Cities in Motion: Transportation Data Innovation Challenge0
Workshop attendance (per workshop)[9]Not available30Cities in Motion: Transportation Data Innovation Challenge0
Use cases[10]0272
Internship projects[11]360
Tutorials[12]010
Courses[13]020
Scientific Impact
Publications[14]5161

What is counted

[1] External GitHub contributors

People with at least one commit that year, on any branch, to the 24 repositories of the tools listed under the row. They are external when no commit email, team listing or GitHub profile places them at New York University, University of Illinois Chicago and University of Washington. Bots are not counted.

Sources: Git history of the repositories, GitHub REST API: commits, GitHub REST API: users, Team page

[2] Package downloads (average per month)

PyPI downloads of autoddg, atlas-profiler, utk-curio and utk, from ClickHouse’s public PyPI dataset, and npm downloads of the 7 packages of Autark. The average per month divides a year’s downloads by its months, counting the elapsed days of a partial month.

Sources: ClickHouse’s public PyPI dataset, npm download counts API

[3] GitHub stars (total)

All the stars the 24 repositories had at the end of the year, by the days GitHub gives them.

Sources: GitHub REST API: stargazers history

[4] Users at large

Accounts registered on Curio’s hosted instances (flow.urbantk.org and dev.urbantk.org), without the shared guest account, as each instance’s public monitor reports them. A year shows the last count taken in it.

Sources: Curio monitor, flow.urbantk.org, Curio monitor, dev.urbantk.org

Y3 (so far)

[5] External cloud deployments

Reported by the team.

[6] Curated datasets

Data the team created or curated, not data downloaded as is: the datasets it publishes on Hugging Face, in the year each was created; the Data Catalog datasets and data files read by the Curio examples that reproduce a paper’s use case, in the year they were added to Curio; and the releases the team reports. Boundaries, samples and OpenStreetMap extracts are not counted.

Sources: Hugging Face: oscur, Hugging Face: projectsidewalk, Hugging Face: makeabilitylab, Curio’s Data Catalog, Curio’s example data

[7] Hugging Face downloads (average per month)

Downloads of the 56 datasets and models the team publishes on Hugging Face (oscur, projectsidewalk and makeabilitylab), as the Hub counts them. The Hub reports only all-time totals, so a year’s downloads are the change in the totals recorded at its ends; the totals from before this page’s history began come from the Hub’s daily statistics snapshots. The average per month divides a year’s downloads by its months.

Sources: Hugging Face Hub API, Hub statistics snapshots (cfahlgren1/hub-stats)

[8] Hackathon attendance (per hackathon)

Reported by the team. Attendance is the mean per hackathon.

Y2

  • Cities in Motion: Transportation Data Innovation ChallengeHackathon on real-world transportation and urban data, at UIC, 30 attendees

[9] Workshop attendance (per workshop)

Reported by the team. Attendance is the mean per workshop that reported it.

Y1

  • OSCUR: A Platform for Understanding Urban DataDemonstration and introduction at the NYC School of Data conference, by Graham Dove and Fabio Miranda

Y2

  • Workshop on Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility (CV4A11y)ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, co-organized by Jon Froehlich and Chu Li; 16 papers and six invited speakers
  • Cities in Motion: Transportation Data Innovation ChallengeUIC with the University of Toronto and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, 30 attendees

[10] Use cases

The urban use cases in the usage-scenario or case-study sections of the papers, in the year of the paper, and the examples in Curio’s gallery that are neither feature demos nor one of those use cases, in the year their walkthrough was added.

Sources: Curio’s example gallery, Publications, read from their HTML versions on arXiv

Y2

Y3 (so far)

[11] Internship projects

Reported by the team.

Y1

  • UrbanMapperPhD intern at NYU, University of Kent
  • Raster data in UrbanMapperUndergraduate intern at NYU, ENSTA Paris
  • StreetTransformer benchmarkGraduate intern at NYU, UC Berkeley

Y2

  • Raster operations for urban analyticsResearch intern at NYU, Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Curio for street-level data collection (SideSeeing)Undergraduate intern at UIC, University of São Paulo
  • Interaction provenance in CurioPhD intern at UIC, Universidade Federal Fluminense
  • Sidewalk Stewards evaluationMaster's intern at UIC, Federal University of Pernambuco
  • Research visitPhD intern at UIC, University of Birmingham
  • Curio redevelopment and deploymentThree undergraduates at UIC, Early Access to Paid Internships Program

[12] Tutorials

Reported by the team.

Y2

  • Autark in Action: Building Serverless Prototypes of Urban Visual Analytics SystemsSIBGRAPI 2026, Tutorials Track

[13] Courses

Reported by the team.

Y2

  • CS 424: Visualization & Visual AnalyticsUIC, Fall 2025, 61 students, with Curio
  • CS 524: Big Data Visualization & AnalyticsUIC, Spring 2026, 22 students, with Curio

[14] Publications

Papers on the Publications page, in the year of their issue. Preprints are not counted, and papers still to appear count once they are published.

Sources: Publications

Y1

Y2

Y3 (so far)

  • Autark in Action: Building Serverless Prototypes of Urban Visual Analytics Systems39th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI 2026), Tutorials

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