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[jendiamond]

Data Set Research

I looked through all 403 data sets in LOS ANGELES OPEN DATA and these were the only ones that look potentially interesting. @jendiamond

• https://data.lacity.org/browse
• https://data.lacity.org/A-Livable-and-Sustainable-City/What-s-Happening-LA-Calendar-Dataset/d3th-bqdk
• https://data.lacity.org/A-Livable-and-Sustainable-City/Events-from-LA-Festival-Guide-2014/acy8-72w9
• https://data.lacity.org/A-Livable-and-Sustainable-City/Library-Branches/a4nt-4gca
• https://data.lacity.org/A-Livable-and-Sustainable-City/What-s-Happening-LA-Calender-Type-of-Event-Categor/si79-fpzd

[venetya]

LA Metro Links from Wai-Yin's presentation

• http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bus-ridership-study-20170518-story.html
• https://www.metro.net
• http://developer.metro.net
• https://twitter.com/MetroLosAngeles
• http://thesource.metro.net
• http://thesource.metro.net/2015/08/05/results-of-metros-latest-customer-survey/
• https://www.metro.net/news/research/

[venetya]

Data Set Research

Found some GTFS data for LA Metro Rails:

Routes:

https://gitlab.com/LACMTA/gtfs_rail/blob/master/routes.txt

Stops:

https://gitlab.com/LACMTA/gtfs_rail/blob/master/stops.txt

Link to Yelp API documentation and samples

https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/examples

Ruby Library for handling GTFS data feeds:

https://github.com/nerdEd/gtfs