Work Night: Transit Data, PFPC Food Access + BYO Project!

Join us for a bi-weekly work night featuring Transit Data and Pittsburgh Food Policy Council's Food Access Tool! We'll have pizza and fun company -- seasoned team members and newcomers are welcome!

You can also BYO Project! Anyone is also welcome to come explore open data and work on their own project. Examples include parking data analysis, an opioid overdose dashboard, bike crashes, and more!

More information below:

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Transit Data:
Here is a list of potential projects:

• Realtime map of buses w/ USB chargers: If your phone is about to die, see if there's a nearby bus that can charge your phone and get you where you need to go
• Bus stops most in need of amenities: First, analyze bus stops by ridership and current amenities. Then see which stops have the heaviest usage but no shelter.
• Bus stop info extractor: See how many people board/alight the buses within a certain radius of an address or point. E.g. business owners could see how much foot traffic they might get within a 1/4 mile of a location.

Analyze hourly ridership data and/or crowding data

• Waiting for PAAC to post additional datasets for hourly data
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  Pittsburgh Food Policy Council's Food Access Tool:

This project's goal is to create an internal and public-facing resource (e.g. an interactive map) for people looking to find healthy, affordable food (ie. where can I buy produce with SNAP?).

• PFPC Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hk3n8cwbKtqxZjHni3JJlvjSSUeCv4dbVIdjq3FiTp8/edit?usp=sharing
• Documentation: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13JINdc4eNQFJEV9l9nKmEJsB6kRMf3bp
• Github: https://github.com/CodeForPittsburgh/food-access-map
• Github (data processing): https://github.com/CodeForPittsburgh/food-access-map-data
• Team lead: Steve Saylor
• How to get project updates: Email Steve at steven.saylor@pitt.edu to be added to the project’s Slack (pghfoodhackathon2019.slack.com)

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Future in-person work nights will be scheduled biweekly on Wednesday evenings at Code and Supply.