{"id":17,"date":"2011-03-04T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-03-07T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T13:23:56","slug":"nightclub-bus-times-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/2011\/03\/04\/nightclub-bus-times-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightclub Bus-times Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/2011\/03\/04\/nightclub-bus-times-idea\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>My colleague, Toby Hunt, had a cool idea for a use for the live bus-times data; put a screen in a pub or nightclub showing when the next buses from the nearby bus-stops are. More drinking time, and less time spent outside in the cold. For girls travelling home alone, waiting longer than needed at a bus-stop could even be a safety issue.<\/p>\n<p>We are grabbing the data from the council website, and caching it for 30 seconds to try and minimise load on their server. There&#8217;s 1410 bus-stops in the <a href=\"http:\/\/data.southampton.ac.uk\/dataset\/bus-stops.html\">bus-stops dataset<\/a> so in theory the maximum load on their server would be those requested twice a minute. 47 requests per second is rather a lot, but I doubt it&#8217;ll ever see 10% of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet My colleague, Toby Hunt, had a cool idea for a use for the live bus-times data; put a screen in a pub or nightclub showing when the next buses from the nearby bus-stops are. More drinking time, and less time spent outside in the cold. For girls travelling home alone, waiting longer than needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8210],"tags":[8209],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-ideas","tag-bus-stops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}