Apart from utilizing back the database that we have been building since day 1 with slight modifications, the application-end is built entirely from scratch.

This would be the last posting made under HugoLim.com’s JPJStat. Journey continues at myPlateStats.com official blog at blog.myplatestats.com.

It will be a brand new experience. Coming soon.

No, it’s not because of the economy suddenly turns into super-hyper-active-accelerated-prosper mode. It’s due to the technical glitch at the government department’s web server.

Since it’s gone public on January 2009, we have come a long way to what we are today. Let’s do a bit of time tunneling on how it comes by, what we have done and have not so far.

We are tracking all 30 vehicle plate prefix in Malaysia as shown below.

By States/Territory

On December 2008, I got the idea of tracking plate numbers around the states in Malaysia. Everyday, we keep seeing new cars on the road with newer, newer and newer plate numbers but do not exactly feeling how fast the numbers actually jump every day. We see and forget.

Why track?

On how fast or slow a state’s plate number increases everyday would provides some implication on how good the territory/state is doing. Comparing it with another state’s number would give us an idea on how both states fare with each other in term of economy, population and many more than you can think of.

During economy slowdown, we can expect slowdown in the number of vehicle registered as many would tighten their belts saving for more important stuff and delay the plan of getting a new ride. Of course, when the economy booms, we can expect a increase in vehicle registrations.

How we do it?

It’s simple. We harvest vehicle number plates at specified time frame everyday from the Transportation department’s website, JPJ. That’s why we call it, simply, JPJStat.

Why we do it?

The official of course, has all the possible data they want and can do all sorts of analysis and statistics. But our idea here is to try to make these information readily available right at your fingertip!

What’s still lacking?

As discussed many times in the previous posts, we are still far from being perfect.

Ideally, you can get what you want with our data collected and not by only getting what we can provide. Right now there’s only two charts that you can see for each state.

Secondly, we have not fixed the algorithm to be used against number plates from the Sabah state. We are regretted for not fixing it after almost one year since the project’s inception.

Closing words

We will seriously look into fixing the algorithm first before developing the ‘dynamic’ graphing/statistics solution. That’s our promise for now.

A word of caution

While we try our best to keep our statistics/data accurate, we do not bear any responsibilities for any unwanted outcome as a result of the usage of our provided information.

Hope you won’t be surprised to see zero registration for 4 Nov 2009 then. Cheers~

Also, we have changed the way information are presented here too. Better!

We can now see the statistics according to a state. Say we need to see the information for Johor, this is what we will get.

That’s it for now! Many more updates to come soon! Behold.

Hope you like it! Comments are most welcomed! =)

JPJStat – Malaysian Vehicle Registrations Tracker

1. Statistics grouped in weeks

Previously, we have data representation based on “Last X days” and “Overall vehicle registration” only. Now, we have added another kind of graphing so that we can see how things are moving week by week.

Of course, in the long run, we would want you to be able to select the kind of data you want whether you would want to compare other state’s data with yours one and with the date range you desire. For now, it’s still (pathetically) basically one way communication between us and you (You only get to see what we show you).

2. Date format

We did a little bit of tweaking on how date is shown especially. From now on, we will follow DD-MM-YYYY (Eg, 20-10-2009) date format. This would make ourselves clear in interpreting the graphs and data ultimately. This is the official date format Malaysia is using so let’s us stick with this.

Future enhancement

Of course, in the end, we always talk about what we want to do next, how to improve the project and so on. We are not exempted from this.

The project homepage has grown way too much and very long. Finding a specific chart/ information is a painful task. We are now looking in making a major face-lift to make your browsing experience better. This is definitely our next aspect to focus on.

And secondly as what we mentioned above, we are pleased to let you to dynamically select the data you want to see but it’s just plain talk now. Behold.

Head to the project hompage

The reasons? Mostly it is due to server migration performed over the last few days and apparently our source is not pumping out data.

So, please don’t be alarmed when you see sudden spike in registration in the following day.

Overall pie chart of vehicle registration to date

I have been busy with work and other stuff lately till I left this pet project idle for some time. I want to talk about what kind of information you can get from this application this time.

At this moment, there are two types of graphs available. First one would be a pie chart showing number of total registered vehicles in the country divided by plate prefixes.

Vehicle registered in Malaysia in the last 14 days

Secondly, there will be a vertical bar chart showing total of vehicles registered for each plate prefix over the last 14 days.

Please note that in this project, we have not included the other 7 plate prefixes from Sabah state. At the moment, the algorithm used does not render the result correctly. So, for the time being, we can only see the other 23 plate prefixes.

Moving forward, we will try improve on the look and feel of the website as its very long in page height at the moment. One quick way of achieving this objective would be using tabbed div approach.

Hope this pet project would benefit you someday somehow. :D

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