Even though it’s sort of Web 1.0, I’m glad someone is collecting these data. The New York maps are kind of boring, really, and more or less confirm what most people already know: there’s a lot going on there, all over, all the time. LA is more interesting, and because event venues are more spread out you can get a better feel for what’s going on given the scale of the graphics.

Better yet would be to scrape data from yelp or eventful or whatever and show this stuff real time. Is it really worth paying some professor a full year’s salary to do this?