[jonathankoren]

This article was very underwhelming. It’s viz porn dressed up as something insightful. Looking at his clusters, he managed to “find” the transit systems. That’s not particularly interesting. It’s even less interesting because at the start he talks about how you can’t combine transit districts, and then he clusters to find the transit districts and then tries to say “look at all the transit districts I combined”, when in reality the ones he’s combining are tiny and inconsequential.

If he wanted to do something, he should demystify clipper card purchases. Every agency has its own bespoke fare system, and its complete bullshit if you transfer between systems. THAT would have been interesting, especially given how these things interact with agency funding.