The North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA), working with representatives from the largest b…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: bike share
The challenges of live data
We’ve got several live datasets in our data store, including feeds from the air quality sensors, the car park gates, and the availability of bikes on the Next Bike stands around the city. Everyone loves a live, regularly updating dataset.…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities Tagged with: Air Quality, Bath Car Parks, Bath Hacked, bike share, Bikeshare, live data, Next Bike
Visualizing Indego bike share usage patterns in Philadelphia (Part 2)
A couple months ago, I made an initial foray into understanding the usage patterns of Indego, Philadelphia’s new bike share system. This month, I thought it’d be a fun exercise to revisit that data set to see if I could…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: bike share, Bikeshare, data visualisation, Indego bike share, open data, Philadelphia, Randy Olson
From Amsterdam to Beijing: The Global Evolution of Bike Share
Despite being nearly 50 years old, bike share is only recently seeing widespread international growth. However, with better data and improved models, bike share’s future looks extremely bright. (Photo: LesHaines / Flickr) Nossa Cidade (“Our City”), from TheCityFix Brasil, explores critical questions…
Analyzing the health of Philadelphia’s bike share system
Last month, I wrote about my initial attempts to model and predict the usage patterns of Indego, Philadelphia’s new bike share system. To recap: If you’ve ever used a bike share before, you know that one of the biggest fears…
Visualizing Indego bike share usage patterns in Philadelphia
One of the many things that I love about my new home town of Philadelphia is that the government openly shares curated data sets covering most of the governmental functions. Since I recently joined Philadelphia’s Indego bike share program, I…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Smart communities, Transparency, Visualising data Tagged with: bike share, Bikeshare, data visualisation, Indego, Indego bike share, open data, open government, patterns, Philadelphia, prediction, Randy Olson, usage