A day in the life of Nice Ride MN

How we built it

Data

Goals

Inspired by Brendan's analysis

Wanted to see bikes moving around the city

What would an "Average Day" look like.

Data processing

How does a bike get from point A to point B?

OpenStreetMap

Metro extracts from teczno.com

Routino

PostGIS

Python

Route popularity

Tiles generated with TileMill

Bike density for 5 min intervals

Density analysis to find the most "average day"

JSON

Interface

Filling in the blanks of Javascript with

DOM manipulation with

Web mapping with

Map interaction with Wax/Mapbox

Map layers, labels on top

Animation handling with Animator.js

Flot for time ticker

Bringing it all together with

All the code is at github.com/MinnPost

Presented by Alan Palazzolo @zzolo

Thanks.
This has been a project