Urdacha Updates 2013-03-21 ~

[Theo Armour]

Hi Everybody

hAxis

When you go to hAxis, you will see there is a new link to the Nextbus-formatted data for San Francisco. 

The link title is: 'SF Day 71 ~ r vs s' - for real vs scheduled

http://jaanga.github.com/urdacha/haxis/r4/index.html

You will note that the data does not appear in a similar manner to the other data sets.

In fact, it too the addition of half a dozen new parameters in order to begin to homogenize the data. hAxis now has thirty different parameters that can be set to control the display of data. And there are more on the way, given the high likelihood that Geneva and Zurich will present more new personality issues that need taming.

Data Sets

San Francisco

Generally the data is parsing well - given the situation of two incompatible data sets. The nextbus data - sent a few days ago - is missing the trip direction which would be nice to have.

Geneva

The data looks good. I hope to start playing with it some time today. There ae some superfluous fields, including the ones for agency and date. Given the size of the files - over 25 MB, it would be great if some of the redundant data could be cut out.

Zurich

1. The current set of data files contain a date (in two separate places) but no time. The date is irrelevant since each file is a separate day, but time - hour, minute, second - is of the essence. Is there any way of getting that data into the files?

2 Has anybody been able to get into Zurich's 'schedule-vs-arrival.csv' ? This file is half a gig in size = but has the full data set. It would be handy to be able to access some of that data...

Urdacha Web Site

I have started building the framework. There should be something visible with pages for the Urdacha Data Wranglers and so up in the next day or so.

 

Bye for now...

Theo