A very cool and useful tool indeed! Sent from my iPhone
> 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 > >
