10:00 am, March 8, 2017
Commission Office
The ACP Building - 8th Floor
190 N. Independence Mall West
Philadelphia, PA
For directions Call (215) 592-1800
Please Use Sixth Street Entrance
1. Call to Order and Introductions
Presentations
2. Cyclomedia
Presented by Mark Wheeler (mark.wheeler@phila.gov), Chief Geographic Information Officer, City of Philadelphia Office of Innovation and Technology
Cyclomedia (https://www.cyclomedia.com/us) is a technology company that has developed a custom capture street view tool that the City of Philadelphia has been using in some of their more recent mapping and data collection efforts. Mark will give an inside look at how this technology works and how the city has been using the tool in their projects.
3. Sharing is Caring: An analysis of Citi Bike's Discounted Membership for New York City Housing Authority Residents
Presented by Thom Stead (tstead@dvrpc.org), Transportation Planner, DVRPC
One year after its May 2013 launch, Citi Bike had garnered 100,000 annual members—a figure unprecedented for a bike share program in the United States. As part of this launch, Citi Bike offered $60 annual membership (a 40% discount), to New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents. Despite this discount, NYCHA residents made up less than 1% of the total annual members after the program’s first year. To better understand why the discounted membership was not widely embraced, the author surveyed NYCHA residents living in developments near Citi Bike stations. The findings of this survey were used to develop a series of actionable recommendations that were given to the Citi Bike operations team.
4. Data Analysis at PWD using R and the Shiny Web Application Framework
Presented by Jay Cruz (jason.cruz@phila.gov), Environmental Scientist, and Liz Mannarin (Elizabeth.Mannarino@phila.gov), Civil Engineer, PWD
Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) scientists and engineers recognize the importance of reproducibility in data analysis workflows and are increasingly moving away from spreadsheet-based analyses. These analyses are being replaced by R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, and PostgreSQL, an open source database management system. In this presentation we will discuss the use of this software and an R web application framework package called Shiny, which has been used to create intuitive user interfaces to interact with and manipulate large amounts of data.
Information Items
5. DVRPC Work Program Update
6. Member Roundtable
- Recent Projects;
Attendees are encouraged to share recent accomplishments and to discuss any ongoing projects that you or your agency is working on that is related to information gathering and sharing. - Recent Event Reports;
Attendees are encouraged to provide a brief summary of any recent meeting or conference they attended. - Upcoming Events;
Attendees are encouraged to announce any upcoming meeting or conference.
7. Adjournment and Lunch
Title VI Statement
In effect as of January 30, 2025
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