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Introduction: The Dulles International Airport (IAD) near Washington, D.C. has a taxi service provided by the Washington Flyer. Taxi cabs are leased by drivers and rides are regulated using a queue system. Drivers enter a corral near the Arrival gate and wait for dispatchers to announce passengers.
There is a website that displays useful information about the queue. The number of taxis waiting in queue, the wait time of the last vehicle out, and the number of taxis to exit the corral in the past hour. This information is updated a few times every hour, not in real time.
Goal: Write a very, very, very (did I mention very?) simple program to pull data from a simple website and plot the information on a graph. Additional work can be done to build a small database and do analytics on the data.
Motivation: What is the best time of day to wait for passengers as a taxi driver? How long are the expected wait times based on time of day?
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