Sources of real time data in Ireland?

OVERTONE69 · 21-10-2011 1:52pm #1

Hi all,

Im doing my final year project and I've been assigned a project title of 'system monitoring application'

Basically on the client side it needs to display a list of statistical data using graphs and messages and the server side needs to process and store. It also needs to fetch the data but I don't know of any good sources.

Opendata.ie is a great place for data but not in realtime.
Met.ie was the obvious choice but theres already a weather forecast app in the college so i cant use it.

Just so were clear, I'm aware that this is a boring and uninteresting project. Thats why I'm here, I'm hoping if i find some interesting real time data I might be able to jazz it up a bit.

Freddio · 21-10-2011 2:17pm

stock exchange any use ?

rte would have feeds aswell

totoal · 21-10-2011 2:33pm

NRA?
It was interesting during last years cold spell / snow anyways!

OVERTONE69 · 21-10-2011 2:56pm

Stock exchange is boring but at least it will allow for multiple types of demoable graphs.

Rte gives me an idea for a magazine style application. read it like a print with different parts being updated. Rtes feeds are plentiful but id need to focus them.

Nra was one i thought of earlier. I was hoping id be able to display traffic information in a Sim like environment. i might be able to do something with that.

Doesn't have to be specific to Ireland by the way

mwrf · 21-10-2011 6:29pm

TFL provide some great feeds:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/16492.aspx

Maybe a London Underground Monitor like this?
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

Also,
geckoboard : http://www.geckoboard.com/ should give you some inspiration.
If I was doing the project, I would do something like geckoboard, A platform / framework to plug in a monitor for pretty much anything, rather then focus on
a single data feed.
I don't know if that's outside the scope of your project though.

Ste_D · 21-10-2011 10:20pm

The Luas and Dublin bus have real time travel info on line now, would that be any use?

fergalr · 22-10-2011 8:55pm

What about doing something with Twitter?

Its very big. Its real time. Its a topical and current area of research.

You could use the streaming API:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api

If you want, filter it to a location, or set of keywords of interest.

OVERTONE69 wrote: »

Just so were clear, I'm aware that this is a boring and uninteresting project.

tbh, don't understand that statement. Surely you can make it into a really interesting project, if you go about it the right way?
There's generally enough latitude in final year projects to make them into almost whatever you want?

OVERTONE69 · 23-10-2011 6:05pm

fergalr wrote: »

What about doing something with Twitter?

Its very big. Its real time. Its a topical and current area of research.

You could use the streaming API:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api

If you want, filter it to a location, or set of keywords of interest.

tbh, don't understand that statement. Surely you can make it into a really interesting project, if you go about it the right way?
There's generally enough latitude in final year projects to make them into almost whatever you want?

Apologies if you didnt know what I mean. perhaps 'unclear' would have been a better descriptive than 'boring'. It just sounded like an absolute mess of a project from the original spec. Although your twitter api did give me a great idea for a centralized social network app. More visual than the ones out there though. Something like LiveIO

Sources of real time data in Ireland?

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