Metro Hack Night VII

Metro Hack Night is a show & tell of Metro-related apps and data visualizations. We are thrilled to once again be hosted by WMATA in their headquarters. We'll be on the first floor; be sure to bring an ID in order to enter the building. Please arrive a bit early, as it will take a while to process everyone through the metal detectors and check IDs. Doors open at 6:00 with pizza courtesy of the awesome people at WMATA, and the program kicks off at 6:30.

Contact Michael (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/members/10550542/) if you have coded a project about Metro(rail), using their API, open data sets, or any other data you can find. 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/).

Thus far we have on the agenda:

• Tyler Green (http://www.tyleragreen.com/) will show how he coded his heavy rail network analysis.

• Kevin Combes will show an automated audio announcement for the correct boarding position for 6-car trains at Gallery Place.

• James Pizzurro (http://jamespizzurro.com/) of MetroHero (http://dcmetrohero.com/) will present a new WMATA Bus Operations Control Center (https://dcmetrohero.com/bocc), a new Metrorail Performance Summary dashboard (https://dcmetrohero.com/performance), and a special surprise.

• Lee Mendelowitz will share an interactive visualization on dcmetrometrics (http://dcmetrometrics.com/) of time-series escalator/elevator outage data.

• Carol Politi will show how TRX Systems (https://www.trxsystems.com/)' Personnel Tracker (https://www.trxsystems.com/personnel-tracker.html) uses 3D mapping to aid metro navigation.

• Shannon Turner (https://shannonvturner.com/)will show how she made the Metro Map Maker (https://metromapmaker.com/).

• Eric Haengel will unveil his LED Metro map.

• Ed O'Brien will demo his Raspberry Pi device that shows train positions on an Adafruit addressable LED strip, using the WMATA API.

• Ting Ma will share her recent research (https://public.tableau.com/profile/ting.ma6563#!/vizhome/EstimatingCaBisImpactsonMetrorailRidershipV5/Title) on how Metrorail ridership have been affected by Capital Bikeshare, using Tableau to visualize the findings.

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Many thanks to our sponsors at Mobility Lab (http://mobilitylab.org/) and WMATA (http://www.wmata.com/) for making this meetup possible.

Want to see what happened at Metro Hack Night VI (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/events/235160988/)? See With real-time data now public, developers delving deeper into Metrorail insights (http://mobilitylab.org/2016/12/21/real-time-data-metro-developers-techies/) (Washington Post) and How developers are turning to Metro’s newest software tool to enhance their apps (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-developers-are-turning-to-metros-newest-software-tool-to-enhance-their-apps/2016/12/17/c6e62d66-c37c-11e6-9a51-cd56ea1c2bb7_story.html) (Mobility Lab).

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