{"id":4969,"date":"2015-01-14T17:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T22:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2015-01-14T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T22:33:23","slug":"choose-frequent-flier-program-2015-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"Choose a frequent flier program &#8211; 2015 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOW WITH GRAPHICAL HOTNESS!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jhofman.github.io\/flights\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/freqfly.png\" alt=\"freqfly\" width=\"485\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, we posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2014\/12\/15\/decide-frequent-flyer-program-best-city\/\">tool<\/a> to help you choose a frequent flier program that is right for where you live.<\/p>\n<p>But it had some limitations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was ugly.<\/li>\n<li>It had no pretty color-coded graphs.<\/li>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t let you select multiple origin airports.<\/li>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t let you select destination airports, let alone multiple ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/jakehofman.com\/\">Jake Hofman<\/a> and I have fixed all that. We present the new &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jhofman.github.io\/flights\/\">choose an airline loyalty program<\/a>&#8221; tool for 2015. It has all the bullet-pointed goodness we advertise above. You can leave the destination field blank to see a count of all departures, or fill it in to limit things down to the places you go in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Try it. Switch your frequent flier program (if desired). Reap the benefits. Let us know how we can improve it. Or fork it &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jhofman\/flights\">from the git hub<\/a>&#8221; and do it yourself. This was made possible with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">R<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/dplyr\/index.html\">dplyr<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/d3js.org\/\">d3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We present the new &#8220;choose an airline loyalty program&#8221; tool for 2015. It has graphical hotness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,13,15],"tags":[1017,1053,1021,1054,1018,975,607,1020,1019,208,500,294,610,626,911,1208],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-programs","category-tools","tag-1017","tag-airline","tag-count","tag-d3","tag-departures","tag-dplyr","tag-flights","tag-flyer","tag-frequent","tag-goldstein","tag-hadley","tag-hofman","tag-loyalty","tag-numbers","tag-program","tag-r"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-1i9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}