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This dataset contains hourly counts of pedestrians from 4 sensors around Melbourne: Birrarung Marr, Bourke Street Mall, Flagstaff station, and Spencer St-Collins St (south), recorded from January 1st 2016 at 00:00:00 to December 31st 2016 at 23:00:00. The data is made free and publicly available from https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/pedestrian-counting-system-monthly-counts-per-hour/information/

Usage

data(pedestrian)

Format

A tibble with 37,700 rows and 9 variables:

hourly_counts

(integer) the number of pedestrians counted at that sensor at that time

date_time

(POSIXct, POSIXt) The time that the count was taken

year

(integer) Year of record

month

(factor) Month of record as an ordered factor (1 = January, 12 = December)

month_day

(integer) Full day of the month

week_day

(factor) Full day of the week as an ordered factor (1 = Sunday, 7 = Saturday)

hour

(integer) The hour of the day in 24 hour format

sensor_id

(integer) the id of the sensor

sensor_name

(character) the full name of the sensor

Examples

# explore the missingness with vis_miss

vis_miss(pedestrian)


# Look at the missingness in the variables
miss_var_summary(pedestrian)
#> # A tibble: 9 × 3
#>   variable      n_miss pct_miss
#>   <chr>          <int>    <num>
#> 1 hourly_counts   2548     6.76
#> 2 date_time          0     0   
#> 3 year               0     0   
#> 4 month              0     0   
#> 5 month_day          0     0   
#> 6 week_day           0     0   
#> 7 hour               0     0   
#> 8 sensor_id          0     0   
#> 9 sensor_name        0     0   

if (FALSE) {
# There is only missingness in hourly_counts
# Look at the missingness over a rolling window
library(ggplot2)
gg_miss_span(pedestrian, hourly_counts, span_every = 3000)
}