A very cool and useful tool indeed!

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> On Jul 9, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> Numenta
> 
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