It was tedious, time consuming, mentally taxing, etc...
To you, it'd just look like a bunch of numbers - usually 12 to 15 columns and often 12,000 to 15,000 pages.
Once you know what you're doing, they paint a picture. You can see where there was congestion, accidents, tickets, average speed, maximum speed, lowest speed, etc... But, it's just pages and pages full of numbers.
Yeah, and if I understand you correctly, you were testing out your algorhythms by adjusting the variables and then reexamine the data to see if you were getting correct responses?
Among other things, yes. After all, what good is data without testing? So, we'd test our results after the fact - sometimes years after the fact we'd go back in and set up the pneumatic hoses and test again. (That was a primary testing tool back then. Today, they use cameras and AI to recognize the cars, it's much more refined.)
I've told you before. I liked to fuck with the pneumatic hoses when I found them, and if there was one near a busy intersection that I wanted traffic control lights at for my own personal benefit, I would spend hours going in circles on that street to inflate the traffic numbers LoL
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