Very cool, Matt! Thanks for making this.
> On Jul 9, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello NuPIC,
>
> TL;DR: Go to https://river-view.herokuapp.com/ for free live temporal
> streaming data.
>
> At the last hackathon, one of our teams [1] found a data source for
> live NYC traffic speeds [2], but it had no historical values at all. I
> encouraged them to query the URL every ten minutes and collect data
> over time, but it was barely enough to get anything useful over the
> weekend. I have been working on an HTM Engine application that
> analyzes NYC traffic as well [3].
>
> In order to get the live & historical traffic data I needed to build
> my HTM application, I needed a data service that collected the traffic
> info at regular intervals and provided a time-boxed window of the
> data, so I made a framework that provides this. It is called River
> View: https://river-view.herokuapp.com/. You can find the source code
> in nupic-community [4].
>
> River View is a Public Temporal Streaming Data Service Framework (yes,
> that's a mouthful!). It provides a pluggable interface for users to
> expose temporal data streams in a time-boxed format that is easily
> query-able. (Here's an example of oceanographic data collected at
> Chicago beaches [5].) It was built to provide a longer-lasting
> historical window for public data sources that provide only real-time
> data snapshots, especially for sensor data from public government
> services like weather, traffic, and geological data.
>
> The type of streaming temporal data contained within River View is
> primed for processing with Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) systems
> like NuPIC. And you can create your own rivers by following these
> instructions [6].
>
> I hope some of you find this tool useful for running HTM models on
> real live data. It has certainly made my work with HTM Engine much
> easier. If you have any ideas about other public data sources that
> could be added to River View, please file a feature request [7] or
> write a river yourself [6].
>
> [1]
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecSlW6zFS-g&index=17&list=PL3yXMgtrZmDpDhDZvixTUubv9R9cpZK4T
> [2] http://207.251.86.229/nyc-links-cams/LinkSpeedQuery.txt
> [3] https://github.com/rhyolight/htmengine-traffic-tutorial
> [4] https://github.com/nupic-community/river-view
> [5]
> https://river-view.herokuapp.com/chicago-water-temps/Rainbow%20Beach/data.html?limit=500
> [6] https://github.com/nupic-community/river-view/wiki/Creating-a-River
> [7] https://github.com/nupic-community/river-view/issues/new
>
> Regards,
> ---------
> Matt Taylor
> OS Community Flag-Bearer
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