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This is awesome! Would love to hear more about the dataviz the author is putting together. I have to admit the stack seems like it might be a /bit/ overkill for this use case, but it seems like it was a great learning experience!

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Thanks for reading! I worked with OP (I'm a MapD employee), and yes, for this smallish example this is overkill. However, we're planning on adding a lot more feeds[1] to this pipeline which will make the tools we used a lot more necessary

[1] At the time of writing, there were 213 different bike share feeds https://github.com/NABSA/gbfs/blob/master/systems.csv

Could you support the citybik.es API which supports more than 400 cities (no GBFS requirement)? https://citybik.es/

The example will obviously work with any API, so we could. But not sure using citybik.es adds anything here for my purposes.

Hey @randyzwitch big fan of your Adobe analytics R package and blog.

Regarding this, Is it on AWS or On-Prem? Any basic information you could share about h/w

For this example, I set up a hosted Kafka cluster on Azure using HDInsight, as I didn't want to mess around with setting up Kafka. It's probably an expensive way to solve this problem long-term, as we're not really using anything exotic that a stock Kafka install wouldn't do out of the box.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/kafka/apach...

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