Some projects have been started with this data, we list them here

• BART is Bending Us Over Backwards: http://slantedwindows.com/bart-is-bending-us-over-backwards/

• What is the history of BART/union negotiations?

  • History of voting results on transportation ballot measures http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/GIS/maps/monthly/TranspoBallotResults-BAvsSTATE.pdf

• What are the points of contention?

  • Pay
  • Pensions
  • Medical benefits
  • Safety

• Are the demands reasonable?

  • What employees make the most? What do they do?
  • How do BART employees salaries compare to others in transit industry?
  • How do BART employee salaries compare to inflation?
  • Are employees making more/less than they did 10 years ago? 20?
  • How do BART employee salaries compare to salaries in the bay area? How do they compare to tech employees?
  • How much crime occurres on BART and at stations?
  • How many BART police are there?

• Budget Impact

  • What is BART's total budget?
  • What does it's budget look like? How much for employees?
  • How many tax dollars does it cost? Cost to individual taxpayer?

• Ridership impact

  • How does a strike impact highways, MUNI and ferry transport?
  • How many people ride BART?
  • Which stations have most ridership?

• Socioeconomic impact

  • Does BART service a population that otherwise wouldn't be serviced?
  • How much value does BART add to the area?

• Non-management Salaries with crossfilter and simple statistics http://tributary.io/inlet/6148096
• Management salaries http://tributary.io/inlet/6153614
• Inflation vs raises http://tributary.io/inlet/6153454
• BART map with stations as JSON http://tributary.io/inlet/6148762
• Animating on a BART line http://tributary.io/inlet/6149065
• BART monthly ridership http://tributary.io/inlet/6149542
• Income with inflation - previous and projected ( http://tributary.io/inlet/6152634 )

• Employee Salaries
  • Non-Management: https://github.com/enjalot/bart/blob/master/data/nonmgmt.csv
  • Management (no police): https://github.com/enjalot/bart/blob/master/data/mgmtnopolice.csv
  • source: John Osborn https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiFtsy5d3JwNdE9tOWRtbmh5WTJSYnpaNktwUWJjYnc#gid=3
  • scraped from http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area
• Ridership https://github.com/enjalot/bart/tree/master/data/ridership
  • source: http://www.bart.gov/about/reports/ridership.aspx
• BART's 2013 financials are available in a PDF (page 5) http://www.bart.gov/docs/financials/FY2013_BART_Budget.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit
• Municiple tax shelters http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BATN/message/42479
• Median income at BART stations http://dangrover.github.io/sf-transit-inequality https://github.com/dangrover/sf-transit-inequality

• Traffic volume on Cali highways (search for bay bridge) http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/saferesr/trafdata/2012TrafficVolumes.pdf
• HOV lane data http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/highwayops/docs/2011%20Revised%20HOV%20Report.pdf
• Traffic data http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/traffops/saferesr/trafdata/index.htm

• Salaries https://github.com/enjalot/bart/blob/master/data/actransit-compensation_all.csv

• Salaries http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/PositionDetail.aspx?employeeid=3940543
• Bus ridership in SF (1 week) https://github.com/swissnexSF/Urban-Data-Challenge/tree/master/public-transportation/san-francisco/geo/topojson
• GIS bus routes + stops in SF https://github.com/swissnexSF/Urban-Data-Challenge/tree/master/public-transportation/san-francisco/geo/topojson
• bus routes sketch: http://tributary.io/inlet/5021432

CA MTC http://dataportal.mtc.ca.gov/spatial-library.aspx
GIS data (maps, census) http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/GIS/data.htm (shp files converted to geojson and topojson)
US Atlas https://github.com/mbostock/us-atlas
Bay Area census http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/historical/historical.htm (countypopulations.csv top10cities.csv)
U.S. monthly inflation http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/ (stored in monthlyinflation.csv)
BLS U.S. Historical Wage Data, 2001 - 2013 (Current Dollar) ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/eci.echistrynaics.txt
FRED (economic data) http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
US Cost of Living: http://cost-of-living.findthedata.org/l/60/San-Francisco-CA-Metro-Area
I'd be interested in looking at the property values surrounding BART stations with the Trulia API http://developer.trulia.com/

California State Data Center http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/state_census_data_center/census_2010/view.php

Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) public-use data products
http://lehd.did.census.gov/

Beyond the Shutdown: U.S. Government Data on ArcGIS Online
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/10/04/beyond-shutdown-us-government-data-on-arcgis-online/

CensusReporter http://censusreporter.tumblr.com/

Detailed State Files for California (2013)
block groups: http://openstreetmap.us/~migurski/TIGER-Areas/tl_2013_06_bg.zip
places: http://openstreetmap.us/~migurski/TIGER-Areas/tl_2013_06_place.zip
blocks: http://openstreetmap.us/~migurski/TIGER-Areas/tl_2013_06_tabblock.zip
tracts: http://openstreetmap.us/~migurski/TIGER-Areas/tl_2013_06_tract.zip

Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP2000)
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/census/ctpp2000/

US CTPP using ACS 2006-2010 (5-Year Summary)
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census_issues/ctpp/data_products/acsdataprod.cfm

Industry Classification via BLS:
Transportation and Warehousing: NAICS 48-49
The transit and ground passenger transportation subsector (NAICS 485) consists of these industry groups:

• Urban Transit Systems: NAICS 4851
• Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation: NAICS 4852
• Taxi and Limousine Service: NAICS 4853
• School and Employee Bus Transportation: NAICS 4854
• Charter Bus Industry: NAICS 4855
• Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation: NAICS 4859

• Good contextual overview: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/bay-area-transit-strike-why-it-matters
• July 30 article on strike http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_23773852/unions-may-issue-72-hour-notice-strike-if
• Article comparing transit salaries in other cities with BART http://www.mercurynews.com/bart/ci_23742276/bart-workers-paychecks-already-outpace-their-peers

• SF Transit History http://sftransithistory.com/

• http://d3js.org
• http://square.github.io/crossfilter/
• http://macwright.org/simple-statistics/
• https://github.com/Niggler/js-xlsx
• http://exposedata.com/tutorial/chord/

• http://www.quandl.com/