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Interactive map of BART ridership

33 points by lewis500 13y ago

jareau 13y ago
beautiful!
- lewis500 13y ago
  thanks man. your company is sweet.
  - jareau 13y ago
    wow! didn't expect to get a compliment in return. thank you! Feel free to join our community and hack on anything you're interested in: https://www.balancedpayments.com/open https://www.balancedpayments.com/open Maybe this one: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues/93?source=c https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues/93?sou...
NathanKP 13y ago
Very cool idea. I would highly recommend reversing the colors on the site however. It just looks wrong with the landmass being black and the water white given that the rest of the site uses a theme of black being the background and white being the content. It actually took me about five to ten seconds to see the outline of SF and recognize it because at first I was looking at the water area and thinking "this doesn't look like the bay area". Overall I think you should use a white or beigish background with black text, and for the map colors use black landmass and water the color of the page background. It will make the page so much easier to read.
- lewis500 13y ago
  tried it both ways. trouble with white background was that, given the diversity of colors and how thin some of the lines on the chord diagram are, it was hard to distinguish them well.
  - jessaustin 13y ago
    Maybe a light or dark gray would contrast well and still fit the aesthetic?
  - morley 13y ago
    Blue water is a heavily-established pattern in mapmaking; do you gain anything by not just making the water blue? I understand you're going for a black / white aesthetic but to be honest, it's a well-worn one.
RoboTeddy 13y ago
lewis500's essay about the BART strike is also super insightful: https://medium.com/p/ec6139b54795 https://medium.com/p/ec6139b54795 (he studies transport engineering and economics, so he actually knows what he's talking about)
- dkl 13y ago
  Too bad he never commits to either side. Just lots of talking around the issue.
  - deleted 13y ago
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  - micampe 13y ago
    That is usually an indication of someone knowing what they are talking about: they know there is no black and white easy answer to most issues (not always true though: they may also be a politician).
  - abeboparebop 13y ago
    In addition to micampe's point, he actually does commit, very specifically. A quote: "To be clear, I’m saying we should ignore the workers’ welfare beyond what is necessary to (a) provide the best ridership experience and (b) to guarantee BART workers the safety and living standard we regulate, at minimum, for all workers. No more and no less." That is, the Bay Area public should support BART's side in this dispute, because money spent on labor (benefiting the few) is money that can't be spent on system investment (benefiting the many). If we want to ensure that BART workers can afford to live in the area, that's an important but separate question, and it's better to address the cost of living broadly* than to treat BART employment as a highly targeted Social Security scheme for train operators and mechanics. * E.g., substantial increases in the minimum wage, lessening restrictions on new housing, non-profit-oriented health care, and (shocker) effective public transit.
mrcactu5 13y ago
this looks really great. I'm from San Juan PR, we're still trying to convince the public transport board (AMA) to release their GPS data for the bus system.
mtap 13y ago
The "Jimmy Dean Sausage and Chocolate Chip Pancake on a Stick" line is trending in the office. Good work!
oscilloscope 13y ago
This was included in a set of visualizations built by members of the Bay Area D3.js User Group. http://enjalot.github.io/bart/ http://enjalot.github.io/bart/ http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-d3-User-Group/events/137541752/ http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-d3-User-Group/events/13754175...
jyz 13y ago
You guys never cease to amaze. AWESOME
deanly 13y ago
Awesome! Shared it on Facebook. Not sure if the data exists, but it would be amazing to see the map change over time, kind of like this: http://hint.fm/wind/ http://hint.fm/wind/
__xtrimsky 13y ago
colors for the map are bad :( My eyes are always thinking as white for land.
japaget 13y ago
It's broken on Firefox 24.0; I see only the top part of the circle diagram. It works fine on Chrome, however.
- pessimizer 13y ago
  Same for me; FF24, Linux.
tjbiddle 13y ago
Very cool! I couldn't find it anywhere - where does the data come from?
- abeboparebop 13y ago
  Data is available here: http://www.bart.gov/about/reports/ridership.aspx http://www.bart.gov/about/reports/ridership.aspx. It ought to be cited more prominently!
- enjalot 13y ago
  the data and the context for the project are linked here: http://enjalot.github.io/bart/ http://enjalot.github.io/bart/
abeboparebop 13y ago
Another way of analyzing the data might be to see which station pairs have ridership between them above-and-beyond what their total station ridership would suggest. For instance, adjacent stations might be expected to have less ridership between them, because in many cases you could walk or bike between them.

33 points by lewis500 13y ago

jareau 13y ago

beautiful!

lewis500 13y ago
thanks man. your company is sweet.
- jareau 13y ago
  wow! didn't expect to get a compliment in return. thank you! Feel free to join our community and hack on anything you're interested in: https://www.balancedpayments.com/open https://www.balancedpayments.com/open Maybe this one: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues/93?source=c https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues/93?sou...

NathanKP 13y ago

Very cool idea. I would highly recommend reversing the colors on the site however. It just looks wrong with the landmass being black and the water white given that the rest of the site uses a theme of black being the background and white being the content. It actually took me about five to ten seconds to see the outline of SF and recognize it because at first I was looking at the water area and thinking "this doesn't look like the bay area". Overall I think you should use a white or beigish background with black text, and for the map colors use black landmass and water the color of the page background. It will make the page so much easier to read.

lewis500 13y ago
tried it both ways. trouble with white background was that, given the diversity of colors and how thin some of the lines on the chord diagram are, it was hard to distinguish them well.
- jessaustin 13y ago
  Maybe a light or dark gray would contrast well and still fit the aesthetic?
- morley 13y ago
  Blue water is a heavily-established pattern in mapmaking; do you gain anything by not just making the water blue? I understand you're going for a black / white aesthetic but to be honest, it's a well-worn one.

RoboTeddy 13y ago

lewis500's essay about the BART strike is also super insightful: https://medium.com/p/ec6139b54795 https://medium.com/p/ec6139b54795 (he studies transport engineering and economics, so he actually knows what he's talking about)

dkl 13y ago
Too bad he never commits to either side. Just lots of talking around the issue.
- deleted 13y ago
  [deleted]
- micampe 13y ago
  That is usually an indication of someone knowing what they are talking about: they know there is no black and white easy answer to most issues (not always true though: they may also be a politician).
- abeboparebop 13y ago
  In addition to micampe's point, he actually does commit, very specifically. A quote: "To be clear, I’m saying we should ignore the workers’ welfare beyond what is necessary to (a) provide the best ridership experience and (b) to guarantee BART workers the safety and living standard we regulate, at minimum, for all workers. No more and no less." That is, the Bay Area public should support BART's side in this dispute, because money spent on labor (benefiting the few) is money that can't be spent on system investment (benefiting the many). If we want to ensure that BART workers can afford to live in the area, that's an important but separate question, and it's better to address the cost of living broadly* than to treat BART employment as a highly targeted Social Security scheme for train operators and mechanics. * E.g., substantial increases in the minimum wage, lessening restrictions on new housing, non-profit-oriented health care, and (shocker) effective public transit.

mrcactu5 13y ago

this looks really great. I'm from San Juan PR, we're still trying to convince the public transport board (AMA) to release their GPS data for the bus system.

mtap 13y ago

The "Jimmy Dean Sausage and Chocolate Chip Pancake on a Stick" line is trending in the office. Good work!

oscilloscope 13y ago

This was included in a set of visualizations built by members of the Bay Area D3.js User Group. http://enjalot.github.io/bart/ http://enjalot.github.io/bart/ http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-d3-User-Group/events/137541752/ http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-d3-User-Group/events/13754175...

jyz 13y ago

You guys never cease to amaze. AWESOME

deanly 13y ago

Awesome! Shared it on Facebook. Not sure if the data exists, but it would be amazing to see the map change over time, kind of like this: http://hint.fm/wind/ http://hint.fm/wind/

__xtrimsky 13y ago

colors for the map are bad :( My eyes are always thinking as white for land.

japaget 13y ago

It's broken on Firefox 24.0; I see only the top part of the circle diagram. It works fine on Chrome, however.

pessimizer 13y ago
Same for me; FF24, Linux.

tjbiddle 13y ago

Very cool! I couldn't find it anywhere - where does the data come from?

abeboparebop 13y ago
Data is available here: http://www.bart.gov/about/reports/ridership.aspx http://www.bart.gov/about/reports/ridership.aspx. It ought to be cited more prominently!
enjalot 13y ago
the data and the context for the project are linked here: http://enjalot.github.io/bart/ http://enjalot.github.io/bart/

abeboparebop 13y ago

Another way of analyzing the data might be to see which station pairs have ridership between them above-and-beyond what their total station ridership would suggest. For instance, adjacent stations might be expected to have less ridership between them, because in many cases you could walk or bike between them.