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OnTime

This dataset contains data from Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Creating a table

CREATE TABLE `ontime`
(
`Year` UInt16,
`Quarter` UInt8,
`Month` UInt8,
`DayofMonth` UInt8,
`DayOfWeek` UInt8,
`FlightDate` Date,
`Reporting_Airline` LowCardinality(String),
`DOT_ID_Reporting_Airline` Int32,
`IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline` LowCardinality(String),
`Tail_Number` LowCardinality(String),
`Flight_Number_Reporting_Airline` LowCardinality(String),
`OriginAirportID` Int32,
`OriginAirportSeqID` Int32,
`OriginCityMarketID` Int32,
`Origin` FixedString(5),
`OriginCityName` LowCardinality(String),
`OriginState` FixedString(2),
`OriginStateFips` FixedString(2),
`OriginStateName` LowCardinality(String),
`OriginWac` Int32,
`DestAirportID` Int32,
`DestAirportSeqID` Int32,
`DestCityMarketID` Int32,
`Dest` FixedString(5),
`DestCityName` LowCardinality(String),
`DestState` FixedString(2),
`DestStateFips` FixedString(2),
`DestStateName` LowCardinality(String),
`DestWac` Int32,
`CRSDepTime` Int32,
`DepTime` Int32,
`DepDelay` Int32,
`DepDelayMinutes` Int32,
`DepDel15` Int32,
`DepartureDelayGroups` LowCardinality(String),
`DepTimeBlk` LowCardinality(String),
`TaxiOut` Int32,
`WheelsOff` LowCardinality(String),
`WheelsOn` LowCardinality(String),
`TaxiIn` Int32,
`CRSArrTime` Int32,
`ArrTime` Int32,
`ArrDelay` Int32,
`ArrDelayMinutes` Int32,
`ArrDel15` Int32,
`ArrivalDelayGroups` LowCardinality(String),
`ArrTimeBlk` LowCardinality(String),
`Cancelled` Int8,
`CancellationCode` FixedString(1),
`Diverted` Int8,
`CRSElapsedTime` Int32,
`ActualElapsedTime` Int32,
`AirTime` Int32,
`Flights` Int32,
`Distance` Int32,
`DistanceGroup` Int8,
`CarrierDelay` Int32,
`WeatherDelay` Int32,
`NASDelay` Int32,
`SecurityDelay` Int32,
`LateAircraftDelay` Int32,
`FirstDepTime` Int16,
`TotalAddGTime` Int16,
`LongestAddGTime` Int16,
`DivAirportLandings` Int8,
`DivReachedDest` Int8,
`DivActualElapsedTime` Int16,
`DivArrDelay` Int16,
`DivDistance` Int16,
`Div1Airport` LowCardinality(String),
`Div1AirportID` Int32,
`Div1AirportSeqID` Int32,
`Div1WheelsOn` Int16,
`Div1TotalGTime` Int16,
`Div1LongestGTime` Int16,
`Div1WheelsOff` Int16,
`Div1TailNum` LowCardinality(String),
`Div2Airport` LowCardinality(String),
`Div2AirportID` Int32,
`Div2AirportSeqID` Int32,
`Div2WheelsOn` Int16,
`Div2TotalGTime` Int16,
`Div2LongestGTime` Int16,
`Div2WheelsOff` Int16,
`Div2TailNum` LowCardinality(String),
`Div3Airport` LowCardinality(String),
`Div3AirportID` Int32,
`Div3AirportSeqID` Int32,
`Div3WheelsOn` Int16,
`Div3TotalGTime` Int16,
`Div3LongestGTime` Int16,
`Div3WheelsOff` Int16,
`Div3TailNum` LowCardinality(String),
`Div4Airport` LowCardinality(String),
`Div4AirportID` Int32,
`Div4AirportSeqID` Int32,
`Div4WheelsOn` Int16,
`Div4TotalGTime` Int16,
`Div4LongestGTime` Int16,
`Div4WheelsOff` Int16,
`Div4TailNum` LowCardinality(String),
`Div5Airport` LowCardinality(String),
`Div5AirportID` Int32,
`Div5AirportSeqID` Int32,
`Div5WheelsOn` Int16,
`Div5TotalGTime` Int16,
`Div5LongestGTime` Int16,
`Div5WheelsOff` Int16,
`Div5TailNum` LowCardinality(String)
) ENGINE = MergeTree
ORDER BY (Year, Quarter, Month, DayofMonth, FlightDate, IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline);

Import from Raw Data

Downloading data:

wget --no-check-certificate --continue https://transtats.bts.gov/PREZIP/On_Time_Reporting_Carrier_On_Time_Performance_1987_present_{1987..2022}_{1..12}.zip

Loading data with multiple threads:

ls -1 *.zip | xargs -I{} -P $(nproc) bash -c "echo {}; unzip -cq {} '*.csv' | sed 's/\.00//g' | clickhouse-client --input_format_csv_empty_as_default 1 --query='INSERT INTO ontime FORMAT CSVWithNames'"

(if you will have memory shortage or other issues on your server, remove the -P $(nproc) part)

Import from a saved copy

Alternatively, you can import data from a saved copy by the following query:

INSERT INTO ontime SELECT * FROM s3('https://clickhouse-public-datasets.s3.amazonaws.com/ontime/csv_by_year/*.csv.gz', CSVWithNames) SETTINGS max_insert_threads = 40;

The snapshot was created on 2022-05-29.

Queries

Q0.

SELECT avg(c1)
FROM
(
SELECT Year, Month, count(*) AS c1
FROM ontime
GROUP BY Year, Month
);

Q1. The number of flights per day from the year 2000 to 2008

SELECT DayOfWeek, count(*) AS c
FROM ontime
WHERE Year>=2000 AND Year<=2008
GROUP BY DayOfWeek
ORDER BY c DESC;

Q2. The number of flights delayed by more than 10 minutes, grouped by the day of the week, for 2000-2008

SELECT DayOfWeek, count(*) AS c
FROM ontime
WHERE DepDelay>10 AND Year>=2000 AND Year<=2008
GROUP BY DayOfWeek
ORDER BY c DESC;

Q3. The number of delays by the airport for 2000-2008

SELECT Origin, count(*) AS c
FROM ontime
WHERE DepDelay>10 AND Year>=2000 AND Year<=2008
GROUP BY Origin
ORDER BY c DESC
LIMIT 10;

Q4. The number of delays by carrier for 2007

SELECT IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline AS Carrier, count(*)
FROM ontime
WHERE DepDelay>10 AND Year=2007
GROUP BY Carrier
ORDER BY count(*) DESC;

Q5. The percentage of delays by carrier for 2007

SELECT Carrier, c, c2, c*100/c2 as c3
FROM
(
SELECT
IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline AS Carrier,
count(*) AS c
FROM ontime
WHERE DepDelay>10
AND Year=2007
GROUP BY Carrier
) q
JOIN
(
SELECT
IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline AS Carrier,
count(*) AS c2
FROM ontime
WHERE Year=2007
GROUP BY Carrier
) qq USING Carrier
ORDER BY c3 DESC;

Better version of the same query:

SELECT IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline AS Carrier, avg(DepDelay>10)*100 AS c3
FROM ontime
WHERE Year=2007
GROUP BY Carrier
ORDER BY c3 DESC

Q6. The previous request for a broader range of years, 2000-2008

SELECT Carrier, c, c2, c*100/c2 as c3
FROM
(
SELECT
IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline AS Carrier,
count(*) AS c
FROM ontime
WHERE DepDelay>10
AND Year>=2000 AND Year<=2008
GROUP BY Carrier
) q
JOIN
(
SELECT
IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline AS Carrier,
count(*) AS c2
FROM ontime
WHERE Year>=2000 AND Year<=2008
GROUP BY Carrier
) qq USING Carrier
ORDER BY c3 DESC;

Better version of the same query:

SELECT IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline AS Carrier, avg(DepDelay>10)*100 AS c3
FROM ontime
WHERE Year>=2000 AND Year<=2008
GROUP BY Carrier
ORDER BY c3 DESC;

Q7. Percentage of flights delayed for more than 10 minutes, by year

SELECT Year, c1/c2
FROM
(
select
Year,
count(*)*100 as c1
from ontime
WHERE DepDelay>10
GROUP BY Year
) q
JOIN
(
select
Year,
count(*) as c2
from ontime
GROUP BY Year
) qq USING (Year)
ORDER BY Year;

Better version of the same query:

SELECT Year, avg(DepDelay>10)*100
FROM ontime
GROUP BY Year
ORDER BY Year;

Q8. The most popular destinations by the number of directly connected cities for various year ranges

SELECT DestCityName, uniqExact(OriginCityName) AS u
FROM ontime
WHERE Year >= 2000 and Year <= 2010
GROUP BY DestCityName
ORDER BY u DESC LIMIT 10;

Q9.

SELECT Year, count(*) AS c1
FROM ontime
GROUP BY Year;

Q10.

SELECT
min(Year), max(Year), IATA_CODE_Reporting_Airline AS Carrier, count(*) AS cnt,
sum(ArrDelayMinutes>30) AS flights_delayed,
round(sum(ArrDelayMinutes>30)/count(*),2) AS rate
FROM ontime
WHERE
DayOfWeek NOT IN (6,7) AND OriginState NOT IN ('AK', 'HI', 'PR', 'VI')
AND DestState NOT IN ('AK', 'HI', 'PR', 'VI')
AND FlightDate < '2010-01-01'
GROUP by Carrier
HAVING cnt>100000 and max(Year)>1990
ORDER by rate DESC
LIMIT 1000;

Bonus:

SELECT avg(cnt)
FROM
(
SELECT Year,Month,count(*) AS cnt
FROM ontime
WHERE DepDel15=1
GROUP BY Year,Month
);

SELECT avg(c1) FROM
(
SELECT Year,Month,count(*) AS c1
FROM ontime
GROUP BY Year,Month
);

SELECT DestCityName, uniqExact(OriginCityName) AS u
FROM ontime
GROUP BY DestCityName
ORDER BY u DESC
LIMIT 10;

SELECT OriginCityName, DestCityName, count() AS c
FROM ontime
GROUP BY OriginCityName, DestCityName
ORDER BY c DESC
LIMIT 10;

SELECT OriginCityName, count() AS c
FROM ontime
GROUP BY OriginCityName
ORDER BY c DESC
LIMIT 10;

You can also play with the data in Playground, example.

This performance test was created by Vadim Tkachenko. See: