Stories in Travel Data

What stories you can tell, and what insights can you gain from travel data? A presentation about the vizualization open flight data, and of bicycle journey data from London's bicycle hire scheme. Actually given at Geomob London, July 17th 2014.

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1. Stories
   in Travel
   Data
   James Siddle
   Geomob, 13th May 2013
   

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2. What?
   About Me
   Data, Story, Chart, Design
   Open Flight Data
   Boris Bike Journeys
   Boris Bike Journeys (again)
   Where Next?
   

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3. Open Flight Data
   OpenFlights.org
   “In a nutshell, it's a tool that lets you map your
   flights around the world, search and filter them
   in all sorts of interesting ways, calculate
   statistics automatically, and share the resulting
   maps with friends and the world.”
   Ten years of journeys from my friend “Mario”
   Transformed into a graph
   

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7. ● Graph visualization (nodes/edges)
   ● Auto-layouts reveal relationships
   ● #journeys made = edge weight
   ● #connections = node size
   ● Partitioning
   ● Grouping
   Visualization Technology - Gephi
   

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8. Boris Bike Journeys
   http://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/
   All Boris Bike journeys for 6 Months
   Start/end dates and times
   Start/end stations
   Station IDs
   … more
   Augmented with geo data for stations
   

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12. Boris Bike Journeys (again)
    Focus on Customer IDs
    Associated with each discrete journey
    Possible oversight by TFL
    Opted for custom JS vizualization
    

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19. More Technology
    MySQL - relational store
    LeafletJS
    ● Simple
    ● Easy to use
    ● Plug in different tilesets
    ● Rich interactivity of javascript
    Raw journey data - processed in JS
    

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20. Where Next?
    Even more bikes (NY/SF)
    Cloropleth mapping
    TFL tube/tram data
    Fun with Genotypes
    Bibliometrics
    

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