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Where's my Voi scooter

In this series, I aim to do data analysis on the Voi scooters in my city.

Where's my Voi scooter: [1] Starting my journey
Somebody used the Voi scooter parked in front of my place, I want to know where it is now. Background I got into using Voi scooter recently. It is a scooter hiring service where you can use scooters parked on the street. To use the same scooter and g...
May 30, 20224 min read163
Where's my Voi scooter: [2] Deciding the specifications
I researched the topic in the previous blog. I now know how to query the API, and what is the response. In this blog, I aim to start writing the program to get the scooter data. Current problem: access token generation Each time I want to query the l...
Jun 1, 20226 min read44
Where's my Voi scooter: [3] Coding the Voi scooter location getter
I am going to code the Voi scooter location getter in this blog. The program should request access tokens only when it needs to, send Voi scooter location requests every minute, and efficiently store them. Read config file I started with make_api_req...
Jun 2, 20227 min read73
Where's my Voi scooter: [4] Hosting the project on the cloud with a guild on how to set up a VPS
I will host my Voi scooter location getter project on the cloud in this blog. While the word cloud may sound fancy, it is just someone else's computer. Why cloud The code needs to fetch data and store it 24/7. But I don't want to waste energy, also t...
Jun 9, 20227 min read40
Where's my Voi scooter: [5] Data processing and analysing vehicle count data
With so much data collected, now is the time to dissect it and try to learn something from it. Error during data collection Before that, there were two instances of my program failing during the data collection stage that I want to record. At night, ...
Jun 17, 20228 min read34
Where's my Voi scooter: [6] Changing the data storage format
In this blog post I will first fix the data collection program, and then change how the data is stored, to facilitate further analysis. Improving the data collection program The data collection program crashed multiple times. Since data cannot be col...
Jul 7, 20228 min read35

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