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Cleaning National Transit Data with Ibis

Or, Learn Ibis in Several Minutes

Python

Transit

Every holiday season, the Federal Transit Administration gifts us a dataset: How much each transit agency’s vehicles broke down during the prior calendar year. It’s 2024. We…

Gloucester County has fewer students

Education

In a past post, I covered enrollment changes across the state of New Jersey. In this post, I zoom in on Gloucester County and its school districts. Over the last decade, how…

Transit Breakdown Rankings: 2022

Transit

The FTA just released its 2022 National Transit Database, so let’s start an annual holiday tradition of ranking transit agencies for breakdown frequency. I’ll also compare…

How New Jersey’s K-12 Enrollment Changed

Education

School enrollment is falling in New Jersey. In this post, I’ll break down NJ’s K-12 enrollment trends by county and school district using the NJ Department of Education’s Fal…

Cars Make South Jersey Deadly

Car Hell

You may have read that motor vehicle fatalities in New Jersey are rising and cops aren’t issuing enough traffic tickets. This got me thinking, which parts of NJ are affected…

How Not to Rank Transit

Denominators are good

Transit

From 2016 to 2021, NJ.com published a series of articles:

Transit Breakdown Rankings: 2021

Transit

But all of a sudden, right at the [edge] of the [Hudson], Puff! Chug! Squeak! Squea-ea-eak! The Engine broke down; the wheels slid along a little farther with a shrieking…

Working with the National Transit Database

Transit

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This post is the start of a series I’ll write on the National Transit Database (NTD).