Posts tagged Data Openness
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Uber will give Boston planners useful data about where and when people ride
Planners in Boston, and eventually, regular residents will be able to analyze patterns of where and when people take Uber. The ride-hailing service has announced that it will give Boston data files listing all of the trips people have taken, with the locations anonymized to only show the ZIP code where they start and stop. Cities already collect this kind of information from taxis,… Keep reading…
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“Ride DC” puts real-time transit info on the screen
There’s a new tool to show real-time information about Metro, Circulator, Capital Bikeshare, car sharing and more: Ride DC, which launched yesterday afternoon. Keep reading…
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What’s your chance of getting a CaBi bike or an open station?
The latest neat mashup using Capital Bikeshare data tells you how often a station has a bike or a free dock available: Keep reading…
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Curious about how the proposed boundary changes will affect you? Check out this new app.
Do you know how the proposed changes in school boundaries and feeder patterns will affect your family? Thanks to Code for DC and DC agencies’ willingness to provide data, there’s now an app for that. Keep reading…
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“Bikeometer” shows cyclists are significant
Yesterday Arlington unveiled the region’s first “bikeometer,” a high-tech device that counts how many cyclists pass by, and displays the daily and yearly totals for anyone to see. By publicly displaying the data, the bikeometer helps illustrate that a lot of people really do use bikes to get around. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Save the shrimp and the parking
Crustacean conundrum; Old law helps bike lane foes; Bike lane deficit; Shielding black boxes; Bye-bye, Blue Goose; High speed = high cost; Bad boys; “No parking after midnight?”; And…. Keep reading…
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Want more open government? Make data more open
Though many citizens understand the basic political process, it is often difficult to figure out how specific political decisions are made. Open data can make it easier to participate in local government simply by providing information. Open data gives citizens access to information that can be used to improve government services and provide greater transparency. The underlying… Keep reading…
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Watch more patterns of Metro across a day
WMATA planners have created a new ridership data visualization, a video that shows the volume at each station across the day: Keep reading…
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Watch the patterns of Metro across a day
Kenton Ngo made an animation showing how many people are entering or exiting Metro stations at each hour across the day. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Crash
Plane crashes; road crashes; Build over I-66?; Virginia fights over transportation; Reasons for congestion drops; Metro pulls up flowers; Some feds to Branch Avenue; Purple Line pieces; Hailo a cab soon; Will rents’ rise slow?; And…. Keep reading…