The commute experiment
Use with: build-website. Resume line when done: Ran {project_name}, a controlled commute-timing experiment, and published the analysis at {url}
Brief
Leave for school at a different time each day for a week, log every trip the same way, and publish the answer to when you should leave. It is a small controlled experiment: one variable (departure time), one measurement (door to door), honest notes on everything you could not control.
Personalize
- Your route. The trip you take every day, by whatever mode you use. If you have two routes, that is a second experiment; run one at a time.
- Your departure times. Pick a spread that brackets your current habit, say five slots ten minutes apart. Write them down before the week starts.
- Your confounds. Weather, a missed bus, a fire drill. Log them per trip; they are part of the data.
Milestones
- Design the log before day one: departure time, arrival time, door-to-door minutes, mode, conditions.
- Run the week. Log each trip within an hour of arriving, while you remember the details.
- Structure the log into one data file; add a second week if the first was disrupted.
- Chart departure time against total minutes, zero-based axis, disrupted trips marked.
- Publish the page: the chart, the full log, and your conclusion, including how confident one week of data lets you be.
Done means
- Live URL with chart, full trip log, and the written conclusion
- Every trip has a timestamped entry made the same day
- Disrupted trips are shown and labeled, not dropped
- The conclusion states its limits: one week, one route, one season
- At least 5 commits across at least 4 distinct days, authored by you
- SESSIONS.md has an entry per session, written by you