As a general fan of open data like this, I've been a little worried these analyses would lead to the data not being released in the future. Hopefully if they change anything in the future, it will still be useful and interesting.
I'm really excited about this. With tools like Amazon's Elastic Map-Reduce, it's actually possible for those not affiliated with a research institution to process this data and attempt to draw conclusions from it.
Whoa, this would be awesome! Strongly consider publishing open datasets. :) Could you talk at all about how it works, or what privacy issues you've dealt with?
Edit: Looks like they might source their data from commercial ADSB providers. Bummer
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