Introduction and Document Overview

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The SDC stores sensitive transportation data made available by participating data providers, and grants access to approved researchers to these datasets. The SDC also provides access to opensource tools, and allow researchers to collaborate and share code with other system users.The SDC is a research environment that which allows users to conduct analyses and do development and testing of analysis, develop, and test new tools and or software products. It , while collaborating and sharing code with other system users.

The SDC is not intended to be an alternative to any local jurisdiction’s traffic management center or local data repository. The existing SDC provides users with the following data, tools, and features:

Data: The SDC is ingesting currently ingests several datasets currently. Additional data sets will be added to the environment over time. Users can bring their own data into the environment to use along with the Waze platform data.

Tools: The environment provides access to open source tools including Python, RStudio, Microsoft R, SQL Workbench, Power BI, and Jupyter Notebook. These tools are available on a virtual machine in the SDC, enabling data analytics in the cloud.

FunctionalityFeatures: Users can access and analyze data within the SDC, save their work to a virtual machine, and publish processes and results to share with others.

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Data Providers: These are entities that provide data hosted on the SDC. The data provider stablishes establishes the data protection needs and acceptable use terms for the data analysts (see “Data Agreement” section for more details - https://securedatacommons.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DESK/pages/2253619226/DP+Guide+Chapter+6+Data+Discovery+and+Documentation#Data-Agreement ).

Researchers: These are users that conduct analysis of the datasets hosted on the SDC. Note that researchers can bring their own data and tools into the SDC system.

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