Below is a visualization of weekly frequency for each of SORTA’s routes, derived from the just-released GTFS data. The area of each square is directly proportional to the number of trips a route will make each week after the August 18th, 2013 service changes. The #1 at the top will make a total of 232 weekly trips. The m+ at the bottom will make 595. The route with the most weekly trips is the 43 with 1,289.1 I’ll let them talk for themselves now:
I’ve been meaning to write a really simple little graph-generating script for a while. I’ve been unhappily living with Excel and OpenOffice forever as has everyone, and their ability to make visualisations is just NOTHING compared to the simplicity of SVG combined with a language like PHP. Just a couple hours coding and a little time tweaking in Inkscape and boom! Coloured squares. Oh yeah.
*does a little dance*
I didn’t choose the colours by the way. Those were in the data in a field marked simply ‘route_colors’. Someone at SORTA picked them. Any colour theorists in the audience want to offer a psychoanalysis?
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