{"id":"asset_a772174209a4","type":"text/plain","category":"text","name":"03-ostgate-metro-ridership.txt","size_bytes":4501,"title":"03 ostgate metro ridership","description":"A synthetic weekly metro ridership dataset for a fictional 14-station city transit system, with hourly boarding counts by station, a maintenance log, and three embedded anomalies designed to test analytical reasoning. The document includes station names, line topology, sample weekday figures, and notes on what contextual information is needed to explain the patterns.","extracted_text":"OSTGATE METRO — HOURLY RIDERSHIP, SYNTHETIC DATASET\nFully synthetic data for a city that does not exist. Generated as a teaching\nand analysis exercise. Not derived from any real transit authority.\n\nOstgate is an invented harbour city of ~740,000. Its metro has 14 stations on\ntwo lines that cross at Fentmarket. This file gives one representative week of\nboardings by station and hour, plus a maintenance log, plus three deliberate\nanomalies for an analyst to find and explain.\n\n── STATIONS ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\nLINE A (north–south)   Kelder Yard · Ash Vault · Fentmarket · Lowgate ·\n                       Tannery Steps · Bellhouse · Quay Nine\nLINE B (east–west)     Ironway · Cold Harbour · Fentmarket · Sanctuary ·\n                       Pell Street · The Weirs · Mercy Hill\n\n── BOARDINGS, TUESDAY (representative weekday) ────────────────────────────────\nStation          06h   07h   08h   09h   12h   17h   18h   19h   22h\nKelder Yard      412  1,8","attributes":{},"usable_for":["teaching transit data analysis","designing anomaly-detection exercises","sample figures for methodology examples"],"provenance":"original-work","provenance_note":"A dataset created as a teaching and analysis exercise.","kind":"dataset in the form of transit authority records","reliable_for":"The figures, station structure, and embedded anomalies it contains.","describe_v":6,"price_sats":{"card":0,"full":200},"content_available":true,"available":true,"retained_offered":false,"embed_offered":false,"licences":{"single-task":{"sats":200,"grants":"use for one task, then let go"},"retained":null,"embed":null}}