Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
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Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
#2Matt's schtick is automated, large-scale FOIA requesting; he obtains huge collections of data from cities and then tries to do interesting stuff with it. Here, he apparently managed to get all the tickets in Chicago for several years running, and then used that data to fix the parking signs.
This, to me, is so neat.
Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
#3Matt's schtick is automated, large-scale FOIA requesting; he obtains huge collections of data from cities and then tries to do interesting stuff with it. Here, he apparently managed to get all the tickets in Chicago for several years running, and then used that data to fix the parking signs. This, to me, is so neat.
He also spends a lot of time corresponding the old fashioned way to get the data & cleaning it for mechanical evaluation.
His hobbies make me feel bad about my own...
Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
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Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
#5Matt's schtick is automated, large-scale FOIA requesting; he obtains huge collections of data from cities and then tries to do interesting stuff with it. Here, he apparently managed to get all the tickets in Chicago for several years running, and then used that data to fix the parking signs. This, to me, is so neat.
He also spends a lot of time corresponding the old fashioned way to get the data & cleaning it for mechanical evaluation. His hobbies make me feel bad about my own...
You could have these hobbies!
Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
#6404 error? (page not found)
Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
#7404 error? (page not found)
Should be better now. Let me know if it persists!
Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
He also spends a lot of time corresponding the old fashioned way to get the data & cleaning it for mechanical evaluation. His hobbies make me feel bad about my own...
You could have these hobbies!
I'm kind of on a negative streak these days, so forgive me, reader, but...why in god's green earth aren't these the government's hobbies?!
Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
#9This is awesome. Question though: how is producing license plate data like this not a disallowed privacy invasion? It seems like you could totally track who's parking where and potentially do nasty stuff, if you know (say) someone well-off whom you don't like and who doesn't seem to mind getting tickets on a regular basis.
Re: Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
#10This is awesome. Question though: how is producing license plate data like this not a disallowed privacy invasion? It seems like you could totally track who's parking where and potentially do nasty stuff, if you know (say) someone well-off whom you don't like and who doesn't seem to mind getting tickets on a regular basis.
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