change duration rounding

buscandoaverroes / bikeshare

Pandemic effects on aggregate bikeshare trends

https://rpubs.com/avrsagashi/1004914

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change duration rounding #32

Closed buscandoaverroes closed 3 years ago

buscandoaverroes commented 3 years ago

right now I have duration as a rounded integer for readability and to save memory, but this becomes problematic when trying to model since the outcome variable isn't really reliable (ie, a rounded ride time of 9 minutes could really be 8min and 31 seconds and 9 min and 29 seconds, saying the same thing), which is a lot of hidden variation). Potential solutions:

round to 1 decimal place, leave in units of minutes.
leave as integer, but change duration units to seconds.

buscandoaverroes commented 3 years ago

see construct.R line 87

buscandoaverroes commented 3 years ago

FYI, in the raw files the duration is listed in seconds, rounded to integer

buscandoaverroes commented 3 years ago

resolved in #30 , I think