Much of the data analysis I am interested in involves public transportation, especially the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and data collected from the CTA’s Bus Tracker APIs. The Bus Tracker APIs are a collection of APIs that provide access to the near-real-time locations and estimated arrival times of CTA buses. The APIs also provided access to data detailing the paths of all of the CTA’s bus routes, the geospatial location of bus stops, and more.
In my next post, I plan to introduce one of the major projects I am working on that involves analyzing bus location data …