Awesome List Updates on Apr 02, 2018

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1. Awesome Hacking Locations

United States 🇺🇸 / Massachusetts

The Bun Shop

Loftlike, late-night cafe for filled buns like piroshki & empanadas, plus Vietnamese coffee. BYOB.

2. Awesome Quantified Self

Applications and Platforms / Goals

• Taskade - Simple and sharable tasks, checklists, and notes. (Web, iOS & Android).

3. Awesome Dev Fun

Esoteric languages

• OnlyToday (⭐6) - A date and time based programming language.

4. Awesome Ffmpeg

JavaScript

• ffmpeg-probe (⭐10) - Wrapper around ffprobe for getting info about media files.

• ffmpeg-extract-frame (⭐13) - Extracts a single frame from a video.

• ffmpeg-extract-audio (⭐11) - Extracts an audio stream from a media file.

Tutorials

• Learn FFmpeg libav the Hard Way (⭐8.2k)

5. Awesome Transit

GTFS Courses

• World Bank - "Intro. to GTFS" online course - A free, online, self-paced course for learning about GTFS and GTFS-realtime.

Transit agency data archives / Rust

• CapMetrics (⭐16) - Historical vehicle locations for Austin's transit agency (CapMetro). Data is collected by capmetricsd (⭐10), a Go daemon.

Proprietary (non-standard) vendor APIs / Rust

• Transport API - REST API for aggregated transit data for the United Kingdom. Fee-based access.

• NextBus API - REST API for real-time vehicle, route, stop, and arrival data for agencies that have puchased NextBus's hardware and/or software.

• CityBikes - REST API for aggregated bikeshare data from around the world. Powered by pyBikes (⭐569).

Blog posts / General GIS Applications for making transit visualizations

• When(ish) is my bus? Data and code (⭐45) - The data and code (R) behind Whenish is my bus? Data includes three days of historical vehicle positions and the survey results.

• "Legacy AVL system? It's okay, join the club." by Kurt Raschke - Discussion of options for transforming legacy AVL system data into the GTFS-realtime format.

• "GTFS Best Practices now available!" by Sean Barbeau - Discusses some of the challenges of an open data format like GTFS and the GTFS Best Practices that were launched in early 2017 to help address data quality.

• "What's new in GTFS-realtime v2.0" by Sean Barbeau - Discuss the shortfalls in GTFS-realtime v1.0 and the improvements in v2.0.

• "AVL, CAD, and Real-Time Passenger Info for Beginners" by Tony Laidig - Provides a general introduction to technology used to track vehicles.

Academic papers / General GIS Applications for making transit visualizations

• Tang et al. - "Ridership effects of real-time bus information system: A case study in the City of Chicago" - Experiment in Chicago, IL showed modest increase in ridership when riders had access to real-time info via text message or email.

• Watkins et al. - "Where Is My Bus? Impact of mobile real-time information on the perceived and actual wait time of transit riders" - Experiments in Seattl,e WA showed that riders perceived shorter bus wait times when they had access to real-time info via mobile apps.

• Brakewood et al. - “An experiment evaluating the impacts of real-time transit information on bus riders in Tampa, Florida” - Controlled experiment in Tampa, FL showed that riders with access to real-time info via mobile apps perceived nearly 2 minute reduction in wait times compared to riders without real-time info. Riders with real-time info also had decreases in anxiety and frustration and better reception of agency.

• Brakewood et al. - "The impact of real-time information on bus ridership in New York City" - Experiment in NYC showed that ridership increased on long routes when real-time info was made available to riders.

Government reports / General GIS Applications for making transit visualizations

• APTA Policy Development and Research - Public Transportation Embracing Open Data - APTA's discussion of the benefits and challenges of open transit data (a short summary of the below TCRP report).

6. Awesome Dotnet

Machine Learning and Data Science

• GeneticSharp (⭐1.3k) - Multi-platform genetic algorithm library for .NET Core and .NET Framework. The library has several implementations of GA operators, like: selection, crossover, mutation, reinsertion and termination.

7. Awesome Aws

SDKs and Samples / JavaScript SDK

• aws/aws-amplify 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 (⭐9.2k)

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