Flight Sphere
Data
flight data visualisation
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good visualizations and Route Facts panel
From 1 comment
Nice job, I especially like the "Route Facts" in the bottom-left. Last year I made a video tutorial using the same BTS data showing how to extract similar flight insights using…
jwess on HN
Objections
Seasonal routes show wrong weekly frequency due to zero-flight periods
From 1 comment
I think you need to exclude months or weeks with zero flights, otherwise you get bad data for seasonal routes. For instance, look at this one:…
smackfu on HN
Metro airport consolidation undercounts flights (e.g. United Atlanta to Chicago, NYC airports)
From 2 comments
Interesting. Riddle me this: http://flightsphere.com/flight-time/from/atlanta/to/chicago It says United has 6 flights per week from Atlanta to Chicago. They have 6 or 7 per day…
mikegreen on HNI'm pretty sure UA has more than 48 flights a week to the NY area as well if you're aggregating JFK, LGA and EWR,the number should be closer to 20 per day. I just arbitrarily…
sardonicbryan on HN
Missing regional carrier data such as Alaska Airlines affiliates
From 2 comments
Appears to be missing data from Alaska Airlines. A lot of flights in the NW are handled by Alaska, so there's a number of missing connections from my local airport. [EDIT] Not…
falcolas on HNhttp://flightsphere.com/flight-time/from/bozeman http://www.alaskaair.com/ - search BZN to SEA, there's an average of 2 flights per day
falcolas on HN
Minute-level flight times are too noisy due to weather and air traffic
From 1 comment
Unfortunately, it's fairly difficult to make any concrete conclusions from flight time, especially at a time resolution of one minute. The jet stream and other weather processes…
coherentpony on HN
Requests
Interactive charts and better widget layout by relatedness
From 3 comments
Looks really cool. One small suggestion, sprinkle over some dc.js [1] and add some interactivity :-) [1] http://nickqizhu.github.io/dc.js/
boothead on HNVery interesting visualization. One thing I want to point out however is the rearrangement of the widgets should not be based on its size, but on relatedness instead. An for that…
fuzzythinker on HNFor me, I see the following sets of widgets highly related and should be next to each other: - Flight Time By Airline, .. by Time of Day, Average Timeline - Flights By Month, ..…
fuzzythinker on HN
Boarding time data for airlines
From 1 comment
The only thing I think is missing here boarding times for the different carriers. I was reading somewhere (I can't find the link) that southwest has the best method right now. I…
bargl on HN
Open source the data behind the charts
From 1 comment
what technology you have used here for charts as it doesnt seems to be d3. Also will you be able to opensource the data behind it ?
shamsulbuddy on HN
Questions
What is the data source?
From 2 comments
I'll take you up on that sometime soon hopefully. I'm a bit far from the bay area atm. What is the data source?
mikegreen on HNWhat your data source / API?
fireworks10 on HN
How will the project be monetized?
From 1 comment
Nice work,how do you plan to monetize? Affiliate links to online travel agencies?
sk24iam on HN
Alternatives named
Bureau of Transportation Statistics data
From 1 comment
http://www.transtats.bts.gov/Fields.asp?Table_ID=236 just contact me at nikhilb at ml1.net and you've got your beers.
nikhizzle on HN