https://jenyckee.github.io/tags/brussel/Recent content in Brussel on Jeroen NyckeesHugoen-usTue, 06 Mar 2018 18:46:56 +0100https://jenyckee.github.io/posts/villoviz/Tue, 06 Mar 2018 18:46:56 +0100https://jenyckee.github.io/posts/villoviz/<p>After exploring what the city of Brussel is exposing in its open data platform I decided to do something with the data on the Villo bikes. Villo is a local bike sharing system by the city that allows you to take out a bike at one bike station and leave it at another. The Brussels open data platform has an endpoint that gives a live feed of the availability of each of the bike stations all over the city. I thought it would be interesting to visualize over time how the bike stations are being used. Therefore I set up a task on Amazon AWS that makes a request every 5 minutes to get a status on the availabilities and stores them in a database. I let it run for the night during rush hour from 15h30 till 22h.</p>