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If anyone needs historic data, let me know. They don't give it out if you're not a contributor, but becoming a contributor costs over a hundred euros and has a

by Aachen 2y ago

If anyone needs historic data, let me know. They don't give it out if you're not a contributor, but becoming a contributor costs over a hundred euros and has a multi-decade waitlist if you're not from an area without coverage (very good coverage in Europe, of course..) so I decided not to wait for that. The data is Creative Commons so I felt it should be okay to collect for research and fun purposes

tantalor 2y ago
> The data is Creative Commons Facts are not protected by copyright.
- Aachen 2y ago
  Collections thereof are, however, protected by related legislation And is there no creativity in the way they decide where the strike was based on the hundreds of measurements made? Besides not wanting to fight that one out in court, I'm also simply not wanting to be an asshole so I pay attention to their chosen license and pay it forward
- extraduder_ire 2y ago
  A lot of Europe has database copyright. So you gain copyright by virtue of collecting a bunch of facts together.
rnewme 2y ago
What's the best way to reach out to you? This dataset would be amazing for my students
- Aachen 2y ago
  Email in profile! That's afaik the common or best practice. I can recommend doing the same since HN has no other way to reach out to an individual otherwise -- I'd already have shot you an email if you had ;) I expect it'll indeed be good for students, can be fun to parse various statistics out of: from simple day-of-week counts, or how many strikes land near a few given cities/places (coordinates+radius), to exceedingly complex/predictive. We had some fresh-from-university developers apply who were not able to handle it properly, so also from an employer's POV I can recommend using some large dataset as teaching material (too big for RAM after decompression, but easily fits onto your SSD/HDD and it's decompressible sequentially on the fly to work with it)

by Aachen 2y ago

tantalor 2y ago

> The data is Creative Commons Facts are not protected by copyright.

Aachen 2y ago
Collections thereof are, however, protected by related legislation And is there no creativity in the way they decide where the strike was based on the hundreds of measurements made? Besides not wanting to fight that one out in court, I'm also simply not wanting to be an asshole so I pay attention to their chosen license and pay it forward
extraduder_ire 2y ago
A lot of Europe has database copyright. So you gain copyright by virtue of collecting a bunch of facts together.

rnewme 2y ago

What's the best way to reach out to you? This dataset would be amazing for my students

Aachen 2y ago
Email in profile! That's afaik the common or best practice. I can recommend doing the same since HN has no other way to reach out to an individual otherwise -- I'd already have shot you an email if you had ;) I expect it'll indeed be good for students, can be fun to parse various statistics out of: from simple day-of-week counts, or how many strikes land near a few given cities/places (coordinates+radius), to exceedingly complex/predictive. We had some fresh-from-university developers apply who were not able to handle it properly, so also from an employer's POV I can recommend using some large dataset as teaching material (too big for RAM after decompression, but easily fits onto your SSD/HDD and it's decompressible sequentially on the fly to work with it)