https://ckarnes.com/tags/data/ Recent content in Data on Chris Karnes | Tacoma, WA Hugo en-us Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ckarnes.com/post/mapping-transit-equity/ Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ckarnes.com/post/mapping-transit-equity/ 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. https://ckarnes.com/post/a-one-man-band/ Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://ckarnes.com/post/a-one-man-band/ 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.