Hive Booking

This is a collection of scripts and templates I use to collect data from The Hive's Rock Gym Pro booking page and make illustrations. The scripts make use of Ruby, R, Nemerle (a .NET language), and Inkscape. The scripts generate three types of illustrations: schedule, fast bookings, and timelines.

Schedule

Creates an illustration colour-coding The Hive's schedule by the speed with which each slot fills up.

1. Run dl.rb for a week to record the status of every slot every minute. The script records data to disk once a day.
2. Run consolidate.rb to combine the daily records into a single file.
3. Run update schedule.rb to fill the SVG template schedule.svg with the collected data. The result is written to analysis/schedule.svg.

Fast Bookings

Creates a diagram These scripts use the file produced by consolidate.rb to get the slot schedule. It is enough to run dl.rb only briefly to get enough data for this. However, time starts.rb benefits from running for one or more weeks.

1. Run get schedule.rb to get the slot schedule from the consolidated file.
2. Run time starts.rb to randomly visit each slot several times near its start.
3. Run analyze starts.r to generate a density plot for fast starts in analysis/starts.svg.
4. Incorporate the plot into fast booking.svg.

Timeline

Creates an illustration showing each slot's status during the whole duration it is available. These scripts use the file produced by consolidate.rb to get slot status statistics. Run dl.rb for two weeks to gather the data.

1. Compile and run plot timelines.n to produce cancellation statistics and the slot diagram in analysis/timelines.png.
2. Run analyze timelines.r to generate the slot availability density plot in analysis/cancels.svg.
3. Incorporate the diagrams into timelines.svg.