https://www.pm50plus.co.uk/tags/tfl/Recent content in Tfl on Work In ProgressHugoen-usFri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.pm50plus.co.uk/post/2023-10-13-python-neo4j-and-the-tube/Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.pm50plus.co.uk/post/2023-10-13-python-neo4j-and-the-tube/<h1 id="episode-1--back-to-school">Episode 1 : Back to school</h1> <p><img src="https://www.pm50plus.co.uk/img/tflTube/tflStations.png" alt="London Tube Stations"></p> <p>To become more familar with the TfL API and working with Neo4j programmatically , I&rsquo;m going to write some funky Python code to explore and learn more about them. In Agile terms, it&rsquo;s a Spike. The vast majority of this code is likely to be thrown away - no need to make it pretty , optimised or anything like that, just functional.</p>https://www.pm50plus.co.uk/post/2023-10-03-exploring-london-tube-as-a-graph/Tue, 03 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.pm50plus.co.uk/post/2023-10-03-exploring-london-tube-as-a-graph/<h1 id="exploring-london-tube-as-a-graph">Exploring London tube as a graph</h1> <p><img src="https://www.pm50plus.co.uk/img/tflTube/tfl.png" alt="London Tube from graph database"></p> <p>When I set out to do this, I had two main goals</p> <ul> <li>Learn more about practical applications of graph databases</li> <li>Improve my understanding of what it is like to work with graph databases from the perspective of a developer</li> </ul> <p>I&rsquo;ll need a data source to build the graph from. I picked the London Tube Network to use as it as the people who run it, Transport For London - TFL , have a well documented API that provides a wealth of information. And it&rsquo;s free for basic use. Also, looking at a map of the Tube, it&rsquo;s looks like a graph.</p>