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How far can a traveler on public transit at 8AM on a Monday go in an hour in the Puget Sound region? The answer depends on where you start. If a rider lives near a major transit hub in a central city, Seattle, per se, you can get just about all areas of the city as well as everywhere in the region - Bellevue, Lynnwood, Federal Way, Everett and Tacoma. Enormous opportunities for access to employment, cultural institutions, and education are possible without the use of a private vehicle.

Pictured above: Bus Arrival prototype with data fed by R and OneBusAway API Tacoma has not historically been not known for being a city rich in technical talent. We have Infoblox, TrueBlue, Accumula and a handful of other growing tech companies, but until recently it has been hard to find anyone who knows their way around a spreadsheet, much less a database. Learning technical skills in the South Sound is born out of necessity of getting the job done as quickly as possible and as cheaply as possible.