Data Management Tool

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A data management tool that enables our project to collect, measure, analyze and visualize mobility data for the purpose of evaluating our hypothesis - namely, that our common locations lead to common routes. The tool will enable anyone using Moves to export and upload their data in two easy steps to our project's hosted data management tool, a combination of RDS on AWS, R Studio and Shiny.

In addition to the survey, this is the other deliverable our team will present to the class on 12/3

We'll present the multiple factors that created the need for and influenced the design of this all important tool:

1. privacy - instead of offering to anonymize their data, we enable them to submit it anonymously - furthermore, instead of sharing all of their "quantified self" we upload a small subset of their collected data and parse it into a chronologically-sorted list of trips across all users, preventing us from doing pattern analyses on the mobility data of any single user
2. ease of use - a simple website for The Carpool Project enables users to do all the things we need them to do to participate in our project, so we envision a website with four buttons: 1) Download Moves; 2) Export Your Moves to Your Device; 3) Upload Trips to Our Server; and 4) View our Project Data
3. transparency - the fourth button above enables users to see the entire data set of anonymous, parsed data that's used by our data management tool.

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@Minsu-Daniel-Kim I will be at BIDS from 3-5pm today in case you can join me for part of it, but i must leave at 5pm sharp. Great if we run the API's on my latest Moves data. Please read Project Description on this page since I just updated it: http://hackingmeasurement.berkeley.edu/projects/the-carpool-project.html