Tour de Bikeshare: Setting World Records with JavaScript

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Uses published Capital Bikeshare CSVs and the station endpoint, scraping every 30 minutes to model Bike Angels point assignments; builds a React map visualization and a directed graph combining great-circle distances and Open Elevation API elevation gains to compute effort-weighted edges; runs a decision API that texts routing via Twilio; exploits the algorithm’s timing and point asymmetries to rack up points and sets a one-day Bike Angels world record after ~41 miles ridden and roughly a half-marathon walked.

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1. 0:00Introduction to bike share
2. 3:00The urban landscape of DC
3. 7:00The challenge of the algorithm
4. 10:41Data-driven strategy
5. 13:39First record attempt
6. 18:44Technical refinement
7. 23:50The final pursuit
8. 30:13Reflections on the project

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