Parking on UGA Campus

It's data time.

I have all the parking tickets written on the UGA campus last academic year. For fun, let's compare 2014-2015 with 2015-2016 (last year) to see if any differences emerge. First off, more tickets were written in the recent year (23,265) than in the previous year (23,029).  That's a modest 1 percent increase.

Below are the top 10 ticket locations for the two academic years. Legion Pool topped Ramsey, which is a surprise. I'd love to know what's driving that (every pun intended). Health Sciences drops, perhaps fewer students going there for pizza at The Niche. There are some interesting changes as well, such as North River Road now a factor, and Driftmier Engineering. Yup, there's a story in here somewhere.

Rank	2014-2015	2015-2016
1	Ramsey Center	Legion Pool
2	Health Sciences	Ramsey Center
3	Ramsey Lower	E. River Road
4	Legion Pool	Ramsey Lower
5	E. River Road	North River
6	Life Sciences Upper	Driftmier Eng
7	Railroad/Training	Academic Achieve
8	Carlton St.	Carlton St.
9	Chi Psi House	Life Sciences Upper
10	Hardman Hall	Health Sciences

Of course I also have other data, such as time of day the tickets were written, and which days were more likely (Monday, Tuesday, etc.) to see tickets on cars (spoiler, it's Monday). I'll do another post or posts to get into that.

Fun fact, only one ticket out of 23,265 last academic year was written on a Sunday. Turns out it was a ticket on November 1 in the East Deck for "unauthorized area," which I assume it means someone invented a space.