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by crtified 954 days ago
A couple of casual thoughts to get the ball rolling.

1) This is really cool work. I did note that at this stage the key/only metric involved seems to be Time, unless my quick look missed something. By itself, isolated, I'm sure quite a few conclusions can be drawn from that data, but even moreso, I think that collation with other key data areas such as passenger numbers, traffic intensity data, even things like weather - and I'm sure, plenty of other things I've not thought of - could greatly bolster the data's analytical potential.

2) This is subjective of course - but something feels off (by which I mean, not an entirely neutral presentation of data) to me, about the presentation's critical or punitive framing : things like the celebratory "leader board" of largest delays, complete with gold medal emoji, or the site's name seeming a sort of play on "where's that late bus?!".

1 comments

1) Unfortunately I am already squeezing as much as I can get out of the existing data. The public APIs (there's a different one for each city) don't cover all fields in the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS). I would love to incorporate more data as time goes on, I hadn't thought of sources of data outside of the public transport providers themselves, weather would be a great example to extrapolate comparisons from, thank you!

2) Yeah, I must admit there is a bias at play. Obviously there are a couple of parts of the site that have a negative spin. In an ideal world, there'd be no negative spin to create!