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Using Countdown Clock Data to Understand the New York City Subway


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If you’ve been on a New York City subway platform since January 2018, you should have noticed a countdown clock that displayed an estimate of when the next train would arrive. Although there’s no official record of when trains actually stopped at each station, the countdown clock data can be used to approximate. Over the past 5 months, I’ve collected and processed some 24 million stops’ worth of this data to try to make sense of New York’s vast and troubled subway system. The code is all available on GitHub.

Read more: http://toddwschneider.com/posts/nyc-subway-data-analysis/

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This is incredible! 

I've been working on a web-app that would show the difference between scheduled headway and actual headway as something of a heat-map - the idea being to be able to get an at-a-glance picture of the "health" of the system - and well, the means of logging in this repository is much more elegant than what I had started with - definitely adapting this code. 

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