Spitsgids presented at Data Beers Brussels

With the Spitsgids project, we are predicting how busy your train will be, and add it to the iRail API, so you can take a train earlier or later.

Check out https://irail.be/app for more information

Our blog: https://hello.irail.be
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Special thanks to Arne Nys who created these slides during open Summer of code 2016 (http://2016.summerofcode.be)

Transcript

2. Source: Leefmilieu Brussel (2013)
3. Can’t find a seat?
4. Can’t sit together with your friends?
5. Want to avoid that busy train?
6. source: https://api.irail.be/logs
7. Spitsgids We predict how busy your train will be, so you can leave earlier or later
8. How?
9. “This train is packed!” The user knows all.
10. “ ” “ ”
11. Artificial Intelligence will learn from your feedback
12. And now it’s our turn to publish Open Data Both real-time feedback as our predictions
13. Railer Iphone app And we get this data adopted by other applications
14. The budget so far was crowd-funded And supported by
15. Pieter Colpaert pieter@iRail.be @pietercolpaert @iRail iRail Let’s build a world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.