What is the ThinkChicago Workbench?
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The ThinkChicago workbench provides access to five datasets from the City of Chicago. These the following datasets. Many of these datasets are also available via the City of Chicago Data Portal REST API.
| Dataset | Description | API | Size (CSV) |
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2FM Tech Challenge | Fleet and Facilities Management (2FM) vehicle and equipment data. | N/A | 534M |
| Array of Things Locations | Locations of Array of Things sensor nodes. | REST API | 6.5K CSV; 28K JSON |
| Incidents of crime since 2001. | REST API | 1.4G CSV; 2.9G JSON | |
| Individual Divvy bike sharing trips, including the origin, destination, and timestamps for each trip | REST API | 2.4G CSV; 4.0G JSON | |
| Historical availability of bicycles and docks to return bicycles at the Divvy stations. | REST API | 9.4G CSV; 19G JSON | |
| Taxi trips reported to the City of Chicago. | REST API | 8.0GB CSV only |
Each of these datasets is available in the /shared directory of any running application in Workbench.
Note that some of these files are large and you will not be able to read the entire file into memory. Please prepare accordingly . (See and see resource limits below).
What applications are available?
- Cloud9 development environments for popular languages including Python, Java, PHP, and Node.js
- Data analysis environments including Jupyter Notebooks and RStudio
- Database and data management software including MySQL, PostgresSQL, and MongoDB
Resource limits
Each user account is limited to 4 cores, 8GB RAM memory, and 10GB storage. This means that you will not be able to read entire datasets into memory or start many different applications.
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- Join the ThinkChicago Slack team https://thinkchicago.slack.com/ and post a message to the #workbench channel.
- Send an email to ndslabs-support@nationaldataservice.org