Hi -
In another post where I asked about discrepancies between exported data for 15 minutes versus hourly time bins, I learned that there is an implicit adjustment for uptime that is applied to the hourly counts displayed on the public web page (but not the 15 minute counts in exported tables).
So my first question: is an implicit uptime correction also applied for hourly ‘BicycleTotal_10Modes_’ counts in the exported spreadsheet files? or do the tabulated values represent uncorrected raw counts?
Also, it was mentioned that uptime fractions less than one reflect 15-minute bins that have failed to transfer to the server. Would it thus be correct to assume that the meaningful values for hourly uptime are effectively constrained to zero, one quarter, a half, and one? The many decimal places of precision could imply otherwise but it seems like this might just be an artifact of the export. If the fraction just indicates lost uploads, uptime has no relevance in the context of a 15-minute time bin (since it either uploads or it doesn’t).
I am doing offline analyses of exported hourly count data and want to make sure that I do not apply a redundant adjustment for uptime.
Thanks for any insight you can share!