Freezing Saddles Pointless Prizes

[rcannon100]

I dont think we can volunteer other people to do data mining. If someone wants to step up to do the data mining, great. Otherwise, the award needs to be based on whatever criteria the volunteer award organizing can figure out.

If in the end we simple have first place, second place, and third place…. that’s fine.

THANKS

[KayakCyndi]

I will provide a prize for the person with the most lunch time rides. These will need to be rides that take place between 11am and 2pm. I MIGHT be able to datamine Strava (thanks to a very techi-SO) but if you THINK you are a candidate for this pointless prize please PM me so I have fewer records to sort through.

All that said, I think I know who is winning this one already (acl)!

[KelOnWheels]

Random award ideas off the top of my noggin:

Most miles in fewest days.

Most days with least miles. (I think I might be in the lead on this one though. )

Perfect Attendance – Rode every day

Truancy Award – Rode least amount of days > 0.

I dunno, we’ve still got another month to think of things!

[Amalitza]

@KelOnWheels 43214 wrote:

Random award ideas off the top of my noggin:

Most miles in fewest days.

Most days with least miles. (I think I might be in the lead on this one though. )

Perfect Attendance – Rode every day

Truancy Award – Rode least amount of days > 0.

I dunno, we’ve still got another month to think of things!

I believe some of these might already be on the suggestion list. We have highest and lowest per day mileage, is that the same as your first two suggestions? We also have longest streak of consecutive days, which would be the same as perfect attendance as long as someone manages perfect attendance.

We have a person with least amount of points, but not one with least amount of days, so I will add Truancy to the list.

I agree, we can’t volunteer other people to do data mining or anything else, but there was some indication earlier that there might be a person or two willing to do the programming stuff. So it’s fine to go ahead and suggest prizes that will require data mining, I will put them on the list, and if we do get volunteers to do the data legwork but who doesn’t want to put together the award, I can put together the data wonks and trophy makers for a full award.

I will do the summer freezing saddle ride award, unless someone else wants it.

And KayakCyndi is obviously making a transparent effort to ensure I log as many miles as possible for team 10, as lunch time is my primary opportunity for mileage. Well played, team-mate!

[Dickie]

Since I am not in the competition and I offered a prize for the Dirt-Y Mustache award (most polite rider), how would you like this to work? I could take nominations and/or stories and decide the winner myself, or provide the organizer with the prize and you can decide the winner… regardless, whatever you need from me I’m in!

[DCAKen]

Midnight Madness…the most rides done between midnight and 2 am

I’ll provide the prize for that.

[PeteD]

@PeteD 41068 wrote:

Coldest ride. Would need to mash up strava & wunderground somehow.
Weekender: Person with the highest ratio of weekend miles to weekday miles. Some sort of award for those who don’t/can’t commute or ride during the week.
Nooner: Most rides during lunch hours (11am-2pm) during a weekday.
…
Midnight Madness…the most rides done between midnight and 2 am

Working on the datamining for these.

[Amalitza]

@PeteD 43314 wrote:

Working on the datamining for these.

Just to clarify, you are doing datamining only, correct?
Cyndi and Ken will provide prizes for nooner and midnight madness, and we’ll need award-ers for the other two.

Dickie, I think if you are providing the prize, you can do whatever you want. Pick a winner out of a hat, ask us to vote, offer it to whomever buys you the best beer at happy hour (a very polite thing to do, amirite?)…

[Justin Antos]

Nice! A couple other ideas for data-mining if you feel inspired!
-The opposite of the weekender (weekday warrior?)
-Earliest Bird: most miles/rides ridden before dawn (after midnight)
-Latest Owl: most miles/rides ridden after sunset (before midnight)

[Amalitza]

btw, who are the team captains?

I know Rod Smith and rcannon for teams 10 and 11. Greenbelt, ShawnoftheDread, eminva, I think? Who else?

[Rod Smith]

http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?3500-Freezing-Saddles-Winter-Bike-Challenge-(sign-up-open)&p=38921#post38921

[hozn]

I can also help with data mining. I’m working on a GAE (Google App Engine) app to collect the rides and make the data available to whomever wants to play around with it (CSV & GPX when available, etc.). I think it’ll probably still be a week or so before there is something to post on that.

I looked into wunderground mashup earlier; getting general historical data is easy. Getting hourly data (e.g. to actually determine how cold it was during a ride) may be trickier (may have to guess based on trends of coldest hours during the day, etc. … aka, as a quick Google just taught me, use a “diurnal temperature model”.

[PeteD]

@hozn 43347 wrote:

I looked into wunderground mashup earlier; getting general historical data is easy. Getting hourly data (e.g. to actually determine how cold it was during a ride) may be trickier (may have to guess based on trends of coldest hours during the day, etc. … aka, as a quick Google just taught me, use a “diurnal temperature model”.

For wunderground, you have to sign up for their API, and use a key, which theoretically gets you access to their historical data. I tried looking to see if NOAA or the NDCC for this information, but it’s not really easy to get this data. Seems it’s built more towards a consumer click on a map and get info, rather than a REST/SOAP architecture.

My big hurdle has been getting haskell and its associated libraries installed on my servers. I’ll probably just throw up an EC2 instance and run it from there, since I’ve got some chef recipes for haskell versus my home vm server.

–Pete

[consularrider]

@KelOnWheels 43214 wrote:

… Perfect Attendance – Rode every day …

I think it’s pretty great that as of yesterday we still had ten contenders for this pointless prize!

[eminva]

@consularrider 43398 wrote:

I think it’s pretty great that as of yesterday we still had ten contenders for this pointless prize!

I think we have more than that. We will almost certainly have many winners.

Liz

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