THAT’S MY SPOTINSIGHT DATA ENGINEERING 2016

-SHASHANK SINGHAL

MOTIVATION

30% of city’s traffic is looking for a parking spot

Time and fuel spent

Parking rules are complex

People forget

Garage and private parking can be really

expensive

DEMO

http://thatsmyspot.space/

DATA COLLECTION

Street/Garage parking data:

NYC DOT Parking regulations

Real time car movements:

Self generated data

FINDING DATA WITHIN DATA

About 186000 total parking spots in NYC

1.4 million households in NYC own cars

DATA PIPELINE

Parking

map

Real time user

data/requests

PARK/RELEASE

SPOT DATA

SEARCH

REQUESTS FILTER RESULTS

CHALLENGES

GIS can be tough

Selecting the right tools

Learning a new language

Fine tuning performance

Clean data is not always clean

FLINK

ABOUT ME

Masters in Information Systems from New

York University

Bachelors in Electronics and

Telecommunication

JAVA Developer for 2+ years

Avid biker and self proclaimed New Yorker

Love psychology, philosophy, biology and

technology