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In the hope of not letting decent data go to waste, even if it's only 19 rows, this post is about pulling useful information from a weird, tiny dataset that I collected during the summer of 2014: inter-arrival times of the G train, New York City's least respected and (possibly) most misunderstood subway line. The only non-shuttle service to not touch Manhattan, the G is known to suffer from relatively threadbare scheduled service. It even has fewer cars than other lines and as a result is much shorter, like it's yet to reach puberty. I've been totally reliant on it for years however, as have many other people who live in Brooklyn, and am very interested in the extent to which it actually does operate relative to its reported badness. This led me in part to spend a few weeks imputing G train inter-arrival times (i.e. the times between trains) onto my iPhone every morning during my commute.