Coolio! Inspired by the Machine Learning workshop I just attended, I'm going to whip something up. Interesting point Alex, the importing of data anonymously layered on top of historical weather data from API!
It's a labour of love but very interested in the marriage of infographics with real-time data to see what trends emerges. On Thursday, 25 July 2013 08:16:28 UTC-7, Alex Hillman wrote: > > Cool question! I love these kinds of patterns. Would be neat to see some > of the coworking space management tools export aggregate data so we can do > analysis like this - anonymous occupancy averages by day of week, week of > the month, month of the year, etc would be really cool to overlay on things > like weather data, major events/holidays, etc. > > That said, I haven't seen anything on the macro scale yet, though. > > A couple of small observations I've made: > > * Short term weather extremes (as in an isolated VERY hot, rainy, or snowy > day) may keep people away, but if the trend keeps up for more than a couple > of days, people start braving the weather because being cooped up is > driving them insane. > * Heat waves (like Philly experienced in the last couple of weeks) often > leads to higher occupancy, largely due to the fact that our A/C is > comfortable and people's homes aren't always centrally cooled. > > -Alex > > > > > > -- > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Minna Van | TheNetworkHub.ca < > mv...@thenetworkhub.ca <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, has any one measure occupancy trend vs weather >> trend? >> >> -- >> With greetings from our cool workspace :) >> Minna >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> *The Network Hub* >> www.thenetworkhub.ca - twitter.com/thenetworkhub >> a startup launch pad for small businesses, freelancers & entrepreneurs >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> *Downtown Vancouver:* 1st floor + 3rd floor - 422 Richards Street >> *Downtown New Westminster:* 205-810 Quayside Drive >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to coworking+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
