Within the basic Nineties administration console recreation Theme Park, guests’ satisfaction ranges have been proven by way of the usage of small expressive icons – 🙂☹️. The same visible cue has been utilized in Bloomberg’s new mapped visualization of prepare delays on the New Jersey Transit commuter rail service.
In NJ Transit Is NYC’s Least Dependable Commuter Rail — By a Lengthy Shot Bloomberg has mapped a sequence of smiley-face emojis onto a New Jersey Transit map. Comfortable, sweating, and unhappy emojis are used to symbolize trains which might be on time, 10-Half-hour late, and greater than Half-hour late, respectively. The usage of expressive smiley emojis on an animated transit map vividly illustrates the degrees of delays on completely different strains throughout a very dangerous night commute.
Bloomberg tracked greater than 190,000 trains utilizing real-time transit feed information from Might by way of July 2025 to find out that NJ Transit passengers skilled main service disruptions at six instances the speed of different commuters on its New York and Connecticut counterparts. The info revealed that there are frequent delays of quarter-hour or extra, cancellations, and significantly lengthy delays of Half-hour or extra on NJ Transit trains.
By translating uncooked delay information into an instantly comprehensible visible language, Bloomberg’s mapped emoji visualization makes the size and severity of NJ Transit’s service disruptions as clear as a smiley or unhappy face emoji.
