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How to interpret popular times data #71

Closed kkhangv closed 5 years ago

kkhangv commented 5 years ago

My three quick questions, can anyone of you please help me out?

  1. The date is from 1-7, I wonder if 1 means Monday and 7 means Sunday?
  2. The poptime index is from 0-100 with 0 being close - is it relative or absolute? Aka 20 minutes wait at a restaurant may be long but a 20 wait at the ER is nothing.
  3. Google has a "minute" estimate, is there a way to translate the index to minute? Or better yet, is there a way to scrape it by the hour and day of the week?
m-wrzr commented 5 years ago

Hey,

  1. The normal response already has a weekday returned, were 0=Monday and 6=Sunday, so not sure what you mean there?
  2. The populartimes field shows how many people are in the place relative to the most busy time of the week (100% can still mean there is some space left, but it's as busy as it gets at this place).
  3. This would be the time_wait field