Dear visitors,
From Feb - May 2017 I spent a few months doing an independent study exploring transportation networks & playing around with data NYC's bus & subway system, run mainly by the MTA. This repo is for my advisors to see what I learnt & for others interested in network science as it pertains to public transportation to browse through.
(May 2017) Dear Professor Flynn, Professor Armstrong: First and foremost thank you - for giving me the freedom to learn and fail and for being an excellent support system. This independent study has been a failure in many ways...I still have little to no idea what I am doing, I have no pitch-able final product (definitely not one to public policy experts or urban planners), and I feel like I completely dropped this project in the last 3 weeks. But I learned some things, and documented this learning along the way. So this repo is that documentation.
(1) reflection: documentation of my emotions and struggles
(2) readshpfile.py: python script (written by Tom Armstrong) to read a shape file
(3) info: the data I found, academic sources I consulted, relevant contacts, and data projets that inspired me
(4) problems: two different (mathematical) formulations of this project, including what type of data and network each requires <br