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36C3 - BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier - english translation

media.ccc.de · 12.2K views · 2019-12-29 · 1:01:50

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David Kriesel's 36C3 talk, in an English translation, analyzes a year of scraped Deutsche Bahn data covering every stop of every long-distance train in Germany. It explores delays and how punctuality is actually measured.

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HN brings it up in any thread about German or European rail as a data-driven, entertaining analysis of why trains are late.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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btschaegg · 2023-05 · Strong recommendation

Obligatory mention of a great talk on the topic: "David Kriesel: BahnMining -- Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier" (2019) English translation: [VIDEO] Edit: Note: And that was still with better numbers than lmm posted.

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sdoering · 2021-11 · Strong recommendation

There was this really great talk on the Chaos Communication Congress some time back on the punctuality of German trains. I searched for it and even found the English voice over translation [1]. [1]: [VIDEO]

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DiogenesKynikos · 2020-11 · Recommendation

The was a CCC talk about why the Deutsche Bahn has so many delays: [1]. It turns out that East Germany has great on-time performance, probably because all the infrastructure is new. But overall, Germany has to invest more in upkeep of its existing infrastructure. 1. [VIDEO]

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