Economist Tim Harford has a wonderfully compact review of The Tyranny of Metrics. The review is well worth a read, or as Harford points out:
If you want to understand the strengths and weaknesses of The Tyranny of Metrics you will need to read it — or trust the opinion of someone who has.
18F, the US Government’s digital renegades, posted a blog post strongly arguing that government agencies don’t need to develop apps. Hint: the web is much better at getting something out the door.
511.org in the (California) Bay Area provides GTFS and GTFS-Realtime for many of the agencies in the region, including VTA, Caltrain, SF Muni, AC Transit, and a whole lot more.
The docs are available here, but I find the PDF a little dense (and there are some peculiarities), so this is a cheat sheet.
First you need a token sent to your email address.
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