Visualising Geospatial Data in R with Interactive Maps

Hi Everyone,

Hope you all have a great holiday and are ready for another year of fantastic seminars and workshops! For our first event of 2018 Belinda Maher will be joining us to tell us about her work with geospatial data and R.

Belinda started her journey in transport data at KiwiRail, where she worked on a $2 billion (NZD) upgrade of Auckland's suburban train network. After returning home to Melbourne, she took up a role at Public Transport Victoria in Operational Performance Analysis.
At PTV Belinda used R to plot the location of stations, stops and timing points and the paths of public transport routes. She created dashboards containing spatial visualisations of Victorian public transport operational performance data.
Belinda now works at Swinburne University, using in R and Tableau on data which is (unfortunately) not about trains. Belinda holds a Bachelor of Science from The University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Statistics and Operations Research from RMIT.

Talk Title:
Public Transport Maps and Geospatial Data in R using PTV GTFS data

Abstract:
The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) is an open standard for publishing public transport schedules and associated geographic location and transport service path information.Public Transport Victoria (PTV) first published a GTFS version of their timetable data in 2015, which enabled Google to begin showing ‘public transit’ options for directions in Victoria within Google maps. This data is publicly available on the PTV website. This talk will cover working with GTFS spatial data to plot maps in R, using the leaflet and sp packages. Belinda will explain how to create zoomable maps of transport paths and stations, and mention some of the challenges of working with this dataset.

This meetup is hosted by our wonderful sponsor Zendesk, who will be provided pizza and drinks for us for the evening!

We can't wait to see you all there!

R-Ladies Melbourne