Metro Hack Night V

Metro Hack Night is a show & tell of Metro-related apps and data visualizations. Our speakers are:

• Christian Flores will show DC Mass Transit (http://www.dcmasstransit.com/), an iOS app that combines Metrobus, Metrorail, Circulator, Streetcar and Capital Bikeshare.

• Dan Larson will use his simulation model of the WMATA system to predict train loading and platform crowding during the morning rush.

• Justin Antos offer a look at his Metrorail Capacity Analysis Tool.

• Joe Haaga (https://twitter.com/joe_haaga) will discuss an extensible command line utility for train arrivals.

• Marcos Huerta will demo his Python-built DC Metro Pi Speaker (https://github.com/astrowonk/DC-Metro-Pi-Speaker).

• Austin Brown will demo his Amazon Echo app for Metro.

• Nick Stocchero (https://stocche.ro/) will show how he uses Twitter to power ismetroonfire.com (https://www.ismetroonfire.com/).

• James Pizzurro (http://jamespizzurro.com/) and Jennifer Hill (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-hill-87427991) will return to show new MetroHero (http://dcmetrohero.com/) projects for SafeTrack (http://www.dcmetrohero.com/safetrack), a real-time geomap (http://www.dcmetrohero.com/realtime-map), and Twitter bots (https://twitter.com/metroheroalerts).

Many thanks to our sponsors at WeWork (https://www.wework.com/locations/washington-d-c/crystal-city) and Mobility Lab (http://mobilitylab.org/) for making this event possible!

To build your own Metro apps, hacks, and visualizations, find WMATA's open data via PlanItMetro's data-download (http://planitmetro.com/tag/data-download/) tag, or use their developer tools (https://developer.wmata.com/).

Want to see what happened at Metro Hack Night IV (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/events/228585705/)? See WMATA hosts Metro Hack Night, announces more real-time data (http://mobilitylab.org/2016/02/26/wmata-hosts-metro-hack-night/) and Metro opens doors to app developers (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/02/24/metro-opens-doors-to-app-developers/).

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