Matt This looks really cool, Congratulations of getting this out there. I bet this will have some good uses for putting Nupic to work
Regards Chandan Maruthi On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:32 PM, David Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- Regards Chandan Maruthi
